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Posted on Jul 19, 2018
SSG Gerhard S.
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SSG Roger Ayscue
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No One that thought themselves too good to serve, I.E. Clinton, Trump, Biden, Obama, and the likely next resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave deserved to be in that big ol' white building.
NO ONE who did not wear a uniform and could have been sent into harm's way should ever be allowed to hold an office where they can send someone else into harm's way.
Oh and just so it is fair, the pundits on Fox News that always rattle the saber for the US to send in troops, yet they never served themselves, like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, are rattling a saber that they did not earn the right to rattle.
I would restrict most federal offices to veterans, you are less likely to deploy troops for stupid reasons if you have been deployed for stupid reasons.
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SP5 Delphis Kaczowski
SP5 Delphis Kaczowski
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Then the only way a FEMALE can become President is if we DRAFT women equally?
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Sgt Michael Clifford
Sgt Michael Clifford
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There is no draft and there are a geewat number of women who VOLUNTEER to serve their country..
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SSG Roger Ayscue
SSG Roger Ayscue
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SP5 Delphis Kaczowski - My wife served and there is not a draft. I am saying that no one who has not served should be able to send anyone else into harm's way since they themselves were not willing to go. I did not at anytime mention gender.
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SP5 Wick Humble
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The difference, bottom line, is if one took a medical deferment to avoid service and then 1.) lectured the nation on 'patriotism' ad nauseam, 2.) cited Patton and MacArthur as his heroes, and 3.) disparaged and disrespected Americans who served (often with great distinction - McCain) or considered honorable battle dead as 'losers' -- then yes, I resent that person highly.
BTW: the educational deferment was from a draft board, not the military per se, and was understood by everyone to be only temporary, a 'stay of execution' as it were; the draft was going to get you at the end of it, no question. Unless you found some Doc to sign-off on a medical condition, and AND then it passed the Armed Forces face-to-face medical review. I took the former*, accepted the latter, and served the term required by the Army; I did what they said to do, and went where they said to go -- period. I have a DD214 and an Honorable; a loud and rich politician never did -- nor will.
As McCain said, the draft proved to take conscripts from the lowest tier of our economic strata's, and seldom from the highest. Upset, of course!
*Worked my way through college to BA as a fire-fighter (Crew Boss), never borrowed a cent. GI Bill helped for grad school, though!
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SP5 Delphis Kaczowski
SP5 Delphis Kaczowski
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - Everyone better remember that the FBI is also reading our conversations. Please do NOT use violence even if Trump encourages it. He has already stated in his GOP "Project 2025" that if elected we won't have to ever vote again. Also wants a 2nd American Revolution and has NO idea what could go wrong. Make another T-shirt for Harris and I will buy one (size large).
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
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SP5 Delphis Kaczowski -
I'm Already On The Governments Watch List,
So Just Watch To See What I Do Next.
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
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SP5 Delphis Kaczowski -
TEMU.Com ~~
All Manner Of Special "T's "~ And BUNCHES Of Other Goodies Too.
~ Of Which I Have Many, Of Everything
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SP5 Delphis Kaczowski
SP5 Delphis Kaczowski
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - You must have scared Trumps Secret Service cops because they built a "Bullet Proof Glass Booth" for him to go into to do rallies.
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Lt Col Timothy Cassidy-Curtis
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No. It is their loss.
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CPL Larry Frias Jr
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Next time shoulder a weapon when there’s a call to arms !
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SSG Gerhard S.
SSG Gerhard S.
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One suspects if there is a call to arms to protect our Republic, there will be no shortage of volunteers. Conversely if there's a call to arms to protect some far-away, nebulous cause, or otherwise corrupt regime, one might suspect there'll be less enthusiasm.
Respectful Regards
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CPL Larry Frias Jr
CPL Larry Frias Jr
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Good point …that nebulous cause often rears it’s ugly head …’Nam Iraq Afghan
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SSG Gerhard S.
SSG Gerhard S.
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CPL Larry Frias Jr - Exactly my friend.
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PO1 Robert Ryan
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My Uncle Bobby was a WWII Marine. My cousin joined the Marines in 1968. He finished boot at Paris island and Training at Little Creek Virginia, He got orders to cross the big puddle to Vietnam. His Girlfriend told him if went she wouldn't be waiting for him. He chose to desert and went to Canada with her. It devastated my Uncle Bobby who at first was so proud my cousin enlisted in the Marines. Uncle Bobby passed in Summer 1986. my cousin was not at his funeral. I have come to terms with his choice, but still feel bad for my Uncle Bobby.
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SSG Gerhard S.
SSG Gerhard S.
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Thank you for sharing your very personal thoughts and experiences on this issue. There is little doubt the draft, in particular, and wars in general are disruptive forces.
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MSgt Earl King
MSgt Earl King
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Are you aware of Camp Lejeune?
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Lt Col Timothy Cassidy-Curtis
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Short answer: No.
Let them be. It's their loss.
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PO1 Terry Scott
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It used to be the citizens with the most and the most to loose were the first to step up before getting drafted. There used to be more virtue when the alumni of the ivy halls went to church and believed in civic involvement. There always has been and currently are my family members serving. I had four relatives on the USN Cole. With Marxist teachers it’s only down hill.
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A1C Isa Kocher
A1C Isa Kocher
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i enlisted during the cuba crisis. i got several degrees and graduate degrees as a disabled veteran and taught high school and college and was a Fulbright Fellow

right now so called capitalism has doomed the human family to virtual extinction caused by the climate catastrophe. Karl Marx himself denied being a marxist. Adam Smith the economist most connected with free market economics [developed based on Ibn Khaldun , the first free markert economy theorist] says corporations have no place in a free market because they create monopolies. Smith and Kaldun are truly in common league with most marxist economics which promote democratic control of markets.

as a teacher of anthropology I emphasized that human societies are based on sharing and mutual interdependence. nobody spears an elephant just to feed their own bellies but to support the whole community. nobody builds a hut or puts up a tent to sleep alone and especially when it is cold out. we all work for our families friends and neighbors

bad mouthing teachers is not patriotism and corporations profiteering from human extinction is not patriotism IMHO ... fighting and serving for we the people is my understanding of serving the country
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A1C Isa Kocher
A1C Isa Kocher
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[~1450153: Sgt James - who mentioned communism. i mentioned the us constitution. explicitly. The Constitution of the United States of America for which I took an oath to defend: that constitution, with my life and my whole life has been devoted to that oath ever since.

US Supreme Court, McCulloch v Maryland 1817, unanimous decision

quote" the United Sates is a union of the people, governed by the people, for the sake of the people."
1861 - 1865, 400 thousand us Americans died to preserve that union of the people governed by the people for the people and McCulloch v Maryland was the legal foundation, and the constitutional mandates it explains and affirms, for the US to engage in the Civil War against the traitors who used force to tear apart the union of the people, including people from every territory and state in the union joined the union army to defeat the enemies of the union we swear to defend and uphold

1942-1945 WE, us, the people of the United States fought to preserve protect defend our union of the people. 400 thousand of us again gave the ultimate sacrifice.

Anyone who can call our constitution evil cannot honestly say they are keeping their solemn divine oath to god to this constitution so sanctified by the sacrifices of so many souls and their families and friends who are we the people, solemnly sworn in unity, we the people. thanks be to god who has so blessed us
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Lt Col Steve Bonning
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I had to live through the draft period during Vietnam. It was a scary time and philosophically and morally a big dilemma for many. Like taxes, some chose to do anything and everything to avoid paying THAT piper. There's few under age 65-70 that have any idea what is was like to be an American teenager then so should not be in any credible position to judge.
Personally since it's been over 60 yrs, I think it's time to move on and let it go. When full equality happens and women are drafted during an active war, then perhaps the subject can be revisited.
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SPC Lyle Montgomery
SPC Lyle Montgomery
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SSG Gerhard S. - I volunteered for the draft and I sure as hell feel honored to serve. In 69 when we served with regular Army And Draftees, We all did our part. I have no problems with those who were never called or even the guard and reserves although I did somewhat back then with the NG and ER's. Bottom line is that I never wanted to be a career soldier and by volunteering for the draft, it was a 2 year enlistment instead of 3.
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SSG Gerhard S.
SSG Gerhard S.
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SPC Lyle Montgomery thank you for your voluntary service, and sharing your thoughts, and experiences.
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SSG Gerhard S.
SSG Gerhard S.
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney respectfully, it IS involuntary servitude when the "choice" is the false-choice of involuntary servitude, or involuntary imprisonment. So, while I agree it was both an honor, and a pleasure for me to Voluntarily serve, one might suggest it may be neither to one who wad forced to do so. Particularly given our politicians record of repeatedly getting us involved in foreign wars, only to abandon the cause, even after the treasure has been spent, the blood shed, and the lives destroyed by death, maiming, and a lifetime of psychological turmoil.
Regards.
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
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WE Both Had Choices....
I Chose To Enlist..
You Chose Not To Do Sh*t And Became A Reserve...
Like An Extra Can Of Beans, In Case You Ran Out Of Materials
To Work Up A Fart.
"Respectful Regards"
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I came from a family that had served in every war this nation had since arriving from Sweden in 1870. I enlisted in 1968 because I wanted college, had no money, dirt poor farm kid and I knew a draft was coming anyway (my birthday when it happened was number six, I'd been in for 18 months then), the idea of not serving never occurred to me. I've never felt anything like hatred or even disgust for those who refused and accepted their consequences. I didn't like then, and don't now, those who used money and influence to avoid service. I felt I owed something to this nation for my freedom and still do. What I dislike most of all is those who used every trick possible to avoid service and then later become "chicken hawks", unwilling to serve themselves but eager to send other people's children off to fight and die. Them I have complete contempt for and always will.
SSG Gerhard S.
SSG Gerhard S.
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Thank you for your voluntary service, and for sharing your own experiences, and thoughts on this issue.
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SSG Barry Toll
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There is no doubt in my heart AND mind that Involuntary Servitude is enslavement. Therefore, I cannot condemn nor judge anyone who did what they could to avoid it. It was devastating to me, being drafted via "immediate conscription because i.t was alleged I was a "delinquent registrar" for the draft. A Major General at Ft. Lewis, Washington, put a letter on top of my file stating I was a "threat to good order and discipline" and a professional "malingerer" and that I should be given a rifle and sent as "far forward into combat" as soon as I arrived in Vietnam, as an Infartryman. I was accordingly sent into the Central Highlands, and my second day in the jungle mountains went up a hill with 105 other grunts, and five days later only 32 of us were evacuated from the hill. So, simply put, the Army did its professional best to get me killed dead, as fast as possible. I was decorated for valor twice in those first five days so they tore the General's letter out of my file. Later I became a Special Operations Team Leader in a Ranger designated unit and continued in the military for the next nine years. My final three years, carrying around the Presidential Nuclear Codes and standing ready to brief the President and guide him through a nuclear scenario. So, it turned out I was not a "malingerer" and they did try their damnedest to kill me off, but failed. I don't begrudge anyone for hightailing it to Canada or Sweden, seducing or bribing a doctor to obtain a deferment medical diagnoses, or just plain going on the lam. The Southeast Asian Conflicts were a genocidal series of wars that devastated millions upon millions of lives, and families. They were a form of legalized murder, crimes against humanity itself and murderously criminal. The fact that nobody has been sentenced to death or long, long imprisonment for them, save for one rotten, scapegoat Lieutenant (Calley) only illuminates that the least of the crimes was enslavement, "involuntary servitude" and must NEVER be allowed to recur. So far we have PROVEN we learned NOTHING for the cost of those millions of lives, and 58,000 some odd American lives; see, we are still, like insane people, repeating the exact same mistakes again and again, expecting a different result; let's face it: our strategies and tactics for limited warfares around the world in unconentional warfares have ALWAYS failed. You would think at least one moron in the Pentagon would say, "This stuff has never worked; it has been an unmitigated failure each and every time we've tried it. We need rid of these doctrines and we need an entire revision of what they're doing down at Fort Bragg and in the CIA..." and get it done before another 70,000 American lives are squandered on failed strategies, tactics and military-industrial catastrophes. If you don't understand that, you are part of the murderous problem in its' perpetuities.
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SP5 Wick Humble
SP5 Wick Humble
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Have to agree, especially on the repeating aspect; as the folk song said '... When will they ever learn?" Tragically, every new generation that come up thinks it's the first -- and only. I almost cried when Obama sent us into Afghanistan, the graveyard of the British for a century, then the USSR troops. Or when "W" decided he ould use the military to make good Republicans out of the various fanatics of the Middle East. What's next; Ukraine? LeMany's 'Bomb them back into the stone age' didn't work, nor did saturating the ground with the blood of infantrymen -- us -- so why follow a bankrupt policy further? My best Army buddy died in "Nam two weeks in-country from a booby trap; he hadn't even gotten his first dirty laundry back before his life ended -- for no good reason. I've mellowed a bit at age 76, but I'll never forget -- never!
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SSG Gerhard S.
SSG Gerhard S.
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SP5 Wick Humble thank you for your service and for sharing your perspectives. It's bad enough that generation, after generation of politicians keep using the same failed playback, and use the draft to do so on the cheap. Perhaps it's even worse that those who served, buy into the idea that it's one's duty to blindly follow those politicians, and to suggest, or demand that it is the responsibility of our young men to dutifully sacrifice their futures for those misguided politicians.
Respectful regards
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SSG Barry Toll
SSG Barry Toll
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SP5 Wick Humble - Thanx for sharing your thoughts and experiences. I don't know what keeps me resident in this crazed land, beyond comfortable familiarity. The pain of our constant folly sours the joys of my old age. We can but keep on telling the younger citizens what we have seen and experienced in the hopes it resonates with a few of them.
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