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On 8/24/2017 7:14 AM, John H wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:22:47 -0400, wrote:

On 24 Aug 2017 03:14:14 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:

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

Going to SE Asia to kill SE Asians served the military-industrial complex.
I donâ€™t believe 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.

Or me. My first and last overseas tours were in Germany, working on plans to defend us from the
Godless communists! Saddam took our attention away from the Fulda Gap for a while. I wonder if the
forces over there still plan for an 'active defense' in the Fulda Gap.

Other than a short stint on a patrol gunboat, most of my military
shipboard service was spent in helping track down and documenting the
locations of Soviet submarines with a new (at the time) system for doing so.

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