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Default A Look At Officer Training In The US Navy and Merchant Marine
On 8/24/2017 10:50 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
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On 8/24/2017 6:11 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:

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


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


He could have joined the Peace Corps along with his hero Chris
Matthews.



He has told us of the special and unique job he had as a civilian,
searching for bodies in an active war zone. The job apparently resulted
from rubbing elbows with some General in WashDC.

I've searched unsuccessfully for any information on a program such as
this that existed during the Vietnam era. Must have been top secret.


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