This really is nothing new, if it's true. It's just a reminder to the rank and file that these things *could* come in some unidentified time in the future. They were always telling us crap like that when I was in there. Reminding us of the brothers over in (insert country here) that were suffering persecution and how we should be constantly aware of eathly events because "times hard to deal with" could be upon us any day now. Pfft. Yep, it caused me a lot of nightmares like: What's gonna happen if the soldiers have a gun to my head and they ask me where brother (insert brother or sister's name here) lives? Will I tell them?" Lots of stress for little kids AND adults.. but maybe not as much. It's just their perennial paranoid rantings making evidence again because of the volatile world situation.
I don't think it will come to drinking Kool-Aid or anything like that. Like someone else mentioned: it's just typical corporate downsizing, cutting costs to preserve revenue.
Country Girl
P.S. Bush just wants the oil.