Deployment
Deployment
Posted on Oct 26, 2021
Can you describe how you felt coming home from a deployment or combat?
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After leaving Vietnam, I went to Okinawa for four days to pick up the items that I had left there and prepare to go to the states. While there, a Marine that had just arrived from Vietnam, informed me that my best friend had been killed the day after I left Vietnam. I was sad, angry and shocked. Stateside, myself and other Marines, made the trip by bus from Marine Corps Air Station El Toro to LAX. At LAX we were greeted by maggots that tried to block our way, and called us every name they could think of. One woman asked me how many babies had I killed while another told me to repent for my sins. I was in uniform so that I could fly at the military standby rate. I was not in a good mood but I kept my discipline and did not respond to these maggots as I wanted to.
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Amn Roger Omberg
SP5 (Join to see) - I wish You, all the best from all Americans, We would not be a free people were it not for strong willed folks, like YOU! May GOD bless & keep You.
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Amn Roger Omberg
SPC Martin Meyer - YOU ARE CORRECT, SPC MARTIN MEYER. THE Volunteer soldier, Sailor, Marine, Coast Guard, AIRMEN, give a solemn OATH TO OUR CREATOR (GOD) for life of HIS blessing of the very Freedom You,& I fought for!
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For me it was certainly a mixed bag. Nervous about taking up the mantel of husband and father. Excited to see my family again and concerned that my absence made my young daughter feel like I deserted her.
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PO3 Bobby Quisenberry
Mandatory service means everyone of service age serves. You never have a shortage of military personnel like recruiters experience now. There is no need for bonuses to get people to sign up or retain them. You have to have a clean record for 6 years before even being even considered for any special forces. You will get the cream of the crop as well as basically people who can't get jobs because they are from depressed areas because of economics. In Switzerland everyone is in the military their entire life and after they serve their required active time, they take their rifles home and wait if needed and serve 2 weeks ACDUTRA every year until a certain age. I don't quite think that would work here though. If everyone served, then everyone has pride in their country and themselves, everyone belongs, everyone grows up, no one is reaping the benefits of freedom without paying the price. It makes everyone cohesive instead of at odds. It promotes comradery among the population and dispels racism. It would never be that 1/2 the country was against the military as it became during Vietnam. It saves the country money! That's just my two cents.
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SPC Lyle Montgomery
SSgt Grover Nunnery - Do you think that all of us who got drafted in the 60's and 70's were ready for combat? I sure as hell wasn't but the Army trained us and the soldiers in Nam trained us when we got there and we did the job. I never went hunting as a kid but carried a M60 in Nam and hunted then. I was able to turn into a combat soldier at 18 and many others did so don't say they werent prepared for combat. We did the job as well as as an enlisted soldier today.
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Michael Mick
PO3 Larry Frame - You knew what you had missed while gone. Unlike some of the "protesters" both then and now. They should all get a chance to live in a 3rd world country, particularly one at war and see how they like it. And how blessed we are in this country. For now, anyway.
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Michael Mick
PO3 Bobby Quisenberry - Israel also has mandatory service. Not sure I think I'd be comfortable with women in combat, but I see they are doing it.
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