Heres a lil tip for ya... If he goes back and look at his contract when he signed up there is a very lil clause, it goes along the lines of you serve X amount of years (8 years in my case) no matter what. I chose to serve 6 years off the bat so after that 6 years i go into reserve status for 2 more years, so if they want to they can say too bad your stayin in a full 8. Im rather sure your bro has prbly re-enlisted at some time while he was in during his 8, which means knew terms of contract came about.