Army player selected by Lions, won't head to Iraq

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It's Dishonorable For Army Cadets To Play Football
Published 4/29/2008 by Matthew T. Sussman at Blogcritics Section: Sports
... Campbell is a West Point cadet who is quite skilled at the game of football. So skilled, in fact, that the Detroit Lions selected him in the seventh round, 218th overall of the NFL draft. He became the first Army cadet to be picked in the NFL since 1997. But he still has to complete his service, right? Well, yes, and he will. But it won't be in the form of overseas deployment. The U.S. Armed Forces enacted a new policy stating that if an athlete is able to play professionally, he can complete his commitment with the army by serving as a recruiter during the offseason, instead ...