Did anyone VOLUNTEER for Nam??

[ginscpy]

must have had their heads examined..

 

[ginscpy]

didn't think so

I wanted it to go away

LBJs mess

 

[High_Gravity]

You were too much of a coward to enlist, you just watch the Military channel and get off watching the anarchy from the safety of your living room, go fuck yourself.

 

[ginscpy]

I was 125 lbs on a 5'10" in frame in 1972 - prabably 10 lbs underweight anyway to be drafted

 

[High_Gravity]

I was 125 lbs on a 5'10" in frame in 1972 - prabably 10 lbs underweight anyway to be drafted

Stop with your fucking excuses bitch, you were scared and didn't enlist, simple as that.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

My uncle volunteered. My father was drafted

 

[Ringel05]

must have had their heads examined..

I volunteered, my shrink says I'm all better now.

 

[namvet]

must have had their heads examined..

we let pussy's like you stay home. under momma's skirt

 

[High_Gravity]

must have had their heads examined..

we let pussy's like you stay home. under momma's skirt

 

[techieny]

I did you punk !!!

 

[strollingbones]

my father did two tours...he volunteered for the 2nd one

 

[Mr Natural]

I wussed out and joined the Navy.

I figured if I wanted to get shot, all I'd have to do is walk around the South Bronx on a Saturday night.

 

[del]

enlistees outnumbered draftees in nam

as to how many enlistees volunteered? noddaclue

 

[ginscpy]

Heard about volunteers after Pearl Harbor - inclu kids 0f 16,17 -lied about their age

Wasnt a great groundswell of enthusiam about nam

 

[Ringel05]

I wussed out and joined the Navy.

I figured if I wanted to get shot, all I'd have to do is walk around the South Bronx on a Saturday night.

Joining the Navy didn't help but 2 weeks before I graduated "A" school Nixon started the draw down and the Navy decided my skill set was of better use in South and Central America.

 

[Mr Natural]

I wussed out and joined the Navy.

I figured if I wanted to get shot, all I'd have to do is walk around the South Bronx on a Saturday night.

Joining the Navy didn't help but 2 weeks before I graduated "A" school Nixon started the draw down and the Navy decided my skill set was of better use in South and Central America.

What "A" school did you go to?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

My Dad volunteered. He had to divorce my mom to get in cause there were 5 kids. Once in they remarried. He volunteered for his second tour in Viet Nam were he fell in a pungy stick pit and spent 3 months in a hospital in Okinawa where they didn't know if he would live or die from infection.

That wound haunted him his whole life. He spent 20 years in the Army.

 

[Ringel05]

I wussed out and joined the Navy.

I figured if I wanted to get shot, all I'd have to do is walk around the South Bronx on a Saturday night.

Joining the Navy didn't help but 2 weeks before I graduated "A" school Nixon started the draw down and the Navy decided my skill set was of better use in South and Central America.

What "A" school did you go to?

Dental Technician but in 72-73 they also selected a group of us to train as Combat Medics to augment the Corpsman ranks, ostensibly to serve in a dual role with a MASH type unit.

 

[namvet]

we had the something called the draft, or selective service back then. so if you didn't volunteer or have a deferment the came and got you. I signed up for 4 years in the USN just before they came after me.

 

[ginscpy]

I was 5 foot 10 about 125 lbs in 1972 - coulndnt gain weight to save my life - nice problem to havee