How did you deal with the draft?

[AZrailwhale]

they let her in??

~S~

Most bases were "open" back then. The MPs generally just waved cars with stickers through the gates without inspecting the occupants. She probably rode in with someone who was legally able to access the base.

 

[odanny]

I disagree, so far in the information age, no army has been able to replace losses suffered in mass combat by expensively trained professional troops. Iran and Irag had to resort to draftees, both Russia and Ukraine have had to resort to draftees despite Ukraine starting out with a very American-like well-trained peacetime army.

The United States relied effectively on a draft in WWII, but the circumstances were far different than Vietnam, in too many ways to mention. The Vietnam war marked the end of a draft era military being an effective fighting force. We can't get back there again with what society has become in the 21st century unless the circumstances change, i.e., no more nation building, no more wars of aggression.

Hopefully Iraq signaled the end of these bloody attempts at _______ .

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You don't win a war by drafting an army. Listening to people discuss how lucky they had a REMF job (you'll figure it out) tells you all you need to know about fielding a fighting force through a draft. The only way this could have a chance to be successful is if you are fighting on your own soil.

Look at little Ukraine, more importantly, look at the Russian draft. They are getting the same result we did in Vietnam.

America Should Have Had Non-Selective Service Throughout Our History

Just another excuse to cover up the Capital Treason of the Capitalists' sons and their bootlickers. Both Wings were anti-American , not just the loud one.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Why?

Fighter by Day
Lover by Night
Drunkard by Choice
Marine by Mistake

 

[Zavulon]

retirement I was discharged from the service in 1995 and haven't worked since 1999

Did they give you a house, free medical examinations and threatments or something?
Did you find a wife during military service?

 

[Zavulon]

Fighter by Day
Lover by Night
Drunkard by Choice
Marine by Mistake

We have nice child limeric, too:

Smart one - in artillery;
Rich one - in cavalry;
Drunkard - in fleet;
And a fool - in infantry.

 

[Zavulon]

I disagree, so far in the information age, no army has been able to replace losses suffered in mass combat by expensively trained professional troops. Iran and Irag had to resort to draftees, both Russia and Ukraine have had to resort to draftees despite Ukraine starting out with a very American-like well-trained peacetime army.

What is even more important, in the modern warfare belligerents must have capabilities to evacuate large masses of population and alleviate consequences of the nuclear strikes.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Did they give you a house, free medical examinations and threatments or something?
Did you find a wife during military service?

look up military retirement benefits if you are curious

 

[Zavulon]

look up military retirement benefits if you are curious

Formal documents is one thing, and real life is quite often different.

Do you believe that America should better pay to American soldiers and vets, rather than hire foreign militants and appease America's competitors?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Formal documents is one thing, and real life is quite often different.

Do you believe that America should better pay to American soldiers and vets, rather than hire foreign militants and appease America's competitors?

I think the military should have better pay and benefits. The us is not hiring mercenaries.

 

[Zavulon]

I think the military should have better pay and benefits.

And I think the same way. Best soldiers are your own soldiers.

The us is not hiring mercenaries.

The US is, say, paying Ukrainians.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

And I think the same way. Best soldiers are your own soldiers.

The US is, say, paying Ukrainians.

No, we are not, and Trump is getting hell for stopping what we did give them.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

And I think the same way. Best soldiers are your own soldiers.

The US is, say, paying Ukrainians.

War Mongers Never Send Their Own Sons

Just as happened after 1964 with South Vietnam, if the Ukrainians, when they were only fighting their own ethnic-Russian citizens, had been losing, the Russia-hating American ruling class would have sent in thousands of our own troops to win the war for the Ukraine.

 

[Deadstick]

Da Nang is a popular stop for tourists visiting Vietnam, I had a ticket to go there late last year but the weather was terrible in January (rain every day) and I was just getting over a respiratory infection about the same time my flight was scheduled to depart Bangkok. Trying to reschedule the flight on VietJet ended up being impossible as they made little attempt to respond to my inquiries and it is quite possible no one spoke English. It is also possible they saw my nationality and just chose to ignore me.

It's a beautiful country, I visited Ho Chi Minh City and look forward to seeing Da Nang on my next trip to SEA. I certainly am grateful I was never sent there as an occupier. I worked with many Vietnam veterans over the years and they did not say much about their actual time over there. It was a terrible war that should have never been fought, and ended in 1975 after being occupied since 1887 by French, and later American, colonizers.

Don't forget the Japs, and many Vietnamese fighters fought against all three occupiers over many years.

 

[Deadstick]

The first thing on the Peanut Man's agenda was to pardon every freaking traitor who fled to the people's republic of Canada to avoid the draft. In ten years the traitors were running college campuses and the federal government.

They were not traitors they were heroes, its a pity more of you didn't tell the man where to stick his war.

 

[Deadstick]

Luckily, I wasnt born then. But if I was old enough, I wouldnt have went. Im not going to put my life on the line for politicians.
For my country? Absolutely. But that wasnt about our country. None of our wars lately have been.

Yet many of the herd just don't get it.

 

[Eman623]

The first thing on the Peanut Man's agenda was to pardon every freaking traitor who fled to the people's republic of Canada to avoid the draft. In ten years the traitors were running college campuses and the federal government.

I had a cousin who fled to Canada to escape the draft. After the pardon he returned and became a big rig driver.