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Ethelred
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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X
I guess US Army is a bit tougher than the Swedish, all we ever did was drive around in our trucks, barbeque, drink beer and play soccer. But we were a pretty lame outfit even by swedish standards... |
An aquaintance of mine was a member of the group that handles funerals in Washington DC. They were bored out of their skulls and they seem to have decided that recreationals drugs was the way out of their bored skulls.
However a lot US soldiers have to spend time tramping around the deserts in California or the swamps in the South or playing land on the beach also in California.
I think baseball is more popular than soccer here. However I have no personal experiece in the military. If I did I might be dead as it would have likely entailed combat in Viet Nam.
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Ethelred
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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X
You dodged the draft? |
No. I didn't get drafted. Not everyone did. My number didn't come up.
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Ethelred
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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X
I guess that was a relief... |
Prior to the lottery system you never knew when or if you would be drafted as the US did not have a universal draft. The military only drafted enough to meet their needs. However the draft was so unpopular at that point the Marines had been forced by the rest of the military to take draftees just to spread the heat around to all the military.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 your a Marine, is the way I heard it was being done. That was bad. The Marines should never have draftees. Its bad for the morale of the Corp and thats not good for what is supposed to be a fairly elite part of the military.
When they went to the lottery you had one year that you might be drafted and you knew your number. Mine was 177 and they though they would get to 175 that year so I wasn't sure and I was not a full time student then. They only got up to 150 something though. More volunteers than they expected. Some of the voluteers were people that knew they were destined to have their number come up because it was low.
The US now has an all volunteer military. Thats much better for morale and the US can go back to being a largely civilian nation as it had been for most of its history. Volunteers make better soldiers at least when you don't need everyone you can get.
It also upsets us civilians less when the military has to fight. They all volunteered for it and there is no draft to protest. There is no doubt in my mind that if we didn't have a draft there wouldn't have been nearly as much protesting over the Viet Nam War. Shortly after they stopped sending draftees to Viet Nam the protesting went way down and US politics became less volitile.
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