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I had wanted to enlist since I was a young boy but, it was the smooth words of my recruiter that swayed me from the Army to the National Guard.

I just decided to enlist. There was nothing that was going to give me the experience without spending a lot of money for college or trade school.

My father a Bataan death march surviver

Myself I Wanted Training ,Travel And out Of The Poor Area I Was In

I always want to join the military as a kid seeing my dad working on the flight line. He just encourage me not to join the Air Force but to join the Army.

Didn't have much choice. After a disagreement with the step mother, I came home to an Army recruiter waiting on the couch after school. It was 2 weeks after my 17th birthday as a Junior in High School. Dad told me it was that, or $50 and he would drop me off at the LA bus terminal and I was "on my own".

The county sheriff. 1969, good thing too.

It was what I knew, I wanted to do since high school.
And made a career out of the Army. I am glad I made that choice, and after retiring more so.

I got drafted in 11-66. I liked the. structure and organization of the Army and re-enlisted.

my uncle advised me to join the National Guard as he was a young Artillery Lieutenant and the Viet Nam war was still killing American youth. My dad had just died and being drafted would have killed my mother as I was the only son and oldest child. When war was over I joined Coast guard reserve and did a total of 21 years.