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Default A Look At Officer Training In The US Navy and Merchant Marine
On 8/24/2017 6:11 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/24/17 2:22 AM, wrote:
On 24 Aug 2017 03:14:14 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:

So "no" means you felt no obligation to serve your country.Ā* At least
that's honest.

Going to SE Asia to kill SE Asians served the military-industrial
complex.
I donā€™t believeĀ* it served the country.

If you had decent qualifications they could have sent you to Germany
to defend us from the godless communists like my computer literate
friend from Maryland. With the qualifications you had, you could have
sat in the Stars and Stripes office in Saigon with Al Gore for a few
months and gone back home. The reality is, most people in the military
in the 60s never saw combat or even got close.



Most guys in my age group in the 1960s never got drafted.


You didn't have to be drafted to serve your country.


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