Critique of "The New and Old Army"

In a recent article posted called The New and Old Army posted by Zach Tanner, a 41 year old grandfather, Jorge Gil Muela, enlisted into the US Army to help fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This 41 year old man is being allowed to skip basic training and head directly into war according to the post by Zach. After actually reading the article for myself their were a few statements that I found were a bit misleading. The 41 year old man is gonna be allowed to skip basic training because he was previously enlisted in the military during the Gulf War. He chose to go into the army because the benefits and paycheck were a lot more stable then his current job of appraising houses. Lastly Muela went into the army and is beginning to learn the job skill of cargo handling which he hopes to use as a career when he gets out of the Army by working at Miami International Airport. So unlike Zach's blogs which i found were a bit misleading, the US government is not sending grandparent and elderly to fight on the front lines of the war due to a lack of available personel, the government is in effect stimulating the economy by offering jobs to those who are struggling to get buy and offering them benefits and paychecks that they may not have been able to receive otherwise.