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Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 3/24/18 1:21 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:29:43 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 3/24/18 1:49 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 04:36:35 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/23/18 3:30 PM, Tim wrote:

2:24 PMKeyser Soze
On 3/23/18 2:03 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Standard English: What a moron like Justin failed to learn in grade
school.

Ol' Just couldn't handle academics so he prepared to join the naveee by
pulling on the pigtails of the nine-year-old girl who sat in front of him.
...

Harry what weee you pulling to stay out of the ?naveee??

I wasn't dumb enough to enlist in an effort to make war against people
who were no threat to us.

Why not enlist now? Those Middle easterners seem want to make war against
us.

If they passed on Harry in his 20s, why do you think they would take
him now?

Most young men of even ordinary intelligence were not drafted during the
heyday of the war against Vietnam. They for the most part were not
"passed on," they simply were not drafted/instructed to report for a
pre-induction physical. Those of us who were in college during the 1960s
had a student deferment and as long as we maintained decent grades, the
draft boards left us alone.

Like most young men my age, I was never instructed to report for that
physical; I was never drafted. The fact is, most of you who were in the
service in that era were either drafted or signed up to avoid being
drafted into the Army as meat and sent to Vietnam.

The only one in this newsgroup who might have been shot at is Herring,
and those shots were probably friendly fire because of the sort of
asshole he is.

Sorry, fellas. It was nice of you, I guess, to sign up, but I'm not
impressed with your stateside, European, Korean, or shipboard service
outside of direct combat.

Vietnam was not even on my radar when I signed up. LBJ had just told
us he was not going to send American boys off to fight a war Asian
boys should be fighting. I joined up for the educational opportunities
and chose the CG because I though they were the only ones with a
peacetime mission. I did not want to be sitting on the bench waiting
for something to happen. In 65 I volunteered to go to Vietnam twice
and even tried to change my rate to Gunner's Mate after my first
request was denied because they don't have FTs on small boats.
All that did was screw up my FT3 crow.

BTW the army did draft people in your position, if they had critical
skills. My buddy was drafted within months after graduating because
they wanted computer guys ... and he was married with a kid.
Evidently they had all of the liberal arts people they needed.

Right, because what use would the military have for someone with
language skills in Russian and German, and knowledge of group dynamics
(sociology), and skills to teach English to nincompoops. I'm happy the
military had no use for me.

Nor did anyone elsd. Loser.
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