If you were one of the lucky 5674 to win the recent IRR lottery, you will be happy to know that some of the “essential” skills we needed to fight our battles in Iaq were not medical or engineering.  The list, in fact, included two trumpeters, one trombonist, four clarinetists, three saxaphone players, an electric bass player, and a euphonium player, according to the Los Angeles Times.

As Representative Vic Snyder, himself a former Marine asked, “Is there not a way to do without the euphonium player?”

Not to belittle these skills (which apparently the Pentagon thinks we just can't do without), but here are 12 more families whose lives are disrupted needlessly by the recent IRR callups.