This post was co-authored with Garett Reppenhagen, Servicemember Liaison for Veterans For America.
When men and women in our country join the military, we enter into a sacred contract with them that obliges us honor their willingness to serve and sacrifice – end of story.
One of the most egregious violations of this mutual trust is something called "stop loss"– a very disturbing practice by which our men and women in uniform are forced to continue to serve in the military, after they had expected that they could leave.
