Shared sacrifice!

In March, [Bill Caudle] was laid off from his job as a raw materials coordinator for a plastics company called PolyOne, where he'd worked for 20 years. His severance package had provided several months' salary, but by August the paychecks were winding down. Soon the cost of his family health coverage was going to triple, then a few months after that, nearly triple again. They needed coverage so Mom [Michelle Caudle] could fight her cancer.

Dad's solution: a four-year hitch in the Army.

OK, that's the feature part.

Based on Matt Taibbi's post (Thanks BDBlue!), I thought it would be good to bring up some history. You know, there was at one time this thing people would do, called "protest", and occasionally it had results (however meager and fleeting they might be). But results nonetheless:

Feeling a draft yet?

The Army is closing the books on one of the leanest recruiting years since it became an all-volunteer service three decades ago, missing its enlistment target by the largest margin since 1979 and raising questions about its plans for growth.