Imagine yourself in a year-long project at work. You spend most of that year in a different city, away from your family. You can talk to them via Skype or video chats, and have decent email connectivity. You are the project leader with anywhere from 15-200 people in your team based on task load. Then, out of the blue, your boss’s boss’s boss’s secretary informs you via email that your services are no longer needed as soon as your complete the project and then move back to your home town. How excited are you going to be to do a good job, or even finish the project?

Now imagine that you are an Infantry Company Commander (Captain), or an Infantry/Armor/Artillery/Combat Support Executive (XO) or Operations (S3) Officer. And you are deployed to Afghanistan. And you are being shot at by day and shelled regularly by night. And once you redeploy you are going to be severed from employment.

This is happening right now to over 1200 Captains and 550 Majors in the Army.

I don’t know about you. But I know that if I were deployed to a dangerous place, dodging bullets and rockets and then when I was done, if I survived that, I was going to be let go, I would not put myself in the position to get shot at or have to dodge rockets. Why should I? Why risk it? I have a family to think of. Granted, they’ll get the $400K if I catch the magic one, but I’d rather live my life, if it is all the same to you. I stand a much better chance at that if I do not present myself as a target outside the perimeter wire.

Think what that does to unit cohesion and morale? The mid-level leaders of the company and battalion units decide to put themselves before the men and mission. Or worse, they are suddenly yanked out of country. Forcibly redeployed so they can be terminated. Soon the Lieutenants will balk and not go. The senior NCO’s will still go and make the lower enlisted go—at least until they start getting killed. Before you know it, you have a combat unit that is rendered combat ineffective. And it is done by a political and financial decision at home, not by enemy action.

To save money and to be able to keep letting illegals get free social services, and to let their kids go to college at in-state tuition prices—to keep people in their supply of food stamps while they drive to the store in Cadillacs and Hummers, we will sacrifice our national security and enforce a brain drain of mid-level leadership.

Transform the country—just like B. Hussein said he would.