OT: Whats Your Excuse?

[StrangerHorn]

For serving in the Services or not serving?

Age? Beliefs, School? Other?

Do you feel guilty about not serving>

Do you feel bad about serving?

Do you think its right for Recruiters to recruit High School Seniors when they will believe its all a game of Call of Duty?

or

Fukit! I went to Canada!

I think we will find out then why there is no draft

 

[okiehorn]

I joined the Navy. 1964. I just wanted to get out of Amarillo!

 

[StrangerHorn]

I joined the Navy. 1964. I just wanted to get out of Amarillo!

All that Cattle and Letuce wonderland?...LOL

 

[StrangerHorn]

Looks like only two Patriots Okie! Guess everyone else went to Canada....lol

 

[LongfellowDrew]

I came close to serving. Thought about it pretty hard then realized I’d be leaving my mom and sister alone in a bad part of town. I don’t regret it things worked out fine.

I don’t feel guilty people serve for different reasons. Money, education, country and in the past like my grandfather and cousins drafted.

I had a recruiter in high school basically tell me he could get me stationed in Hawaii. That’s what got my attention. 18yr old kid looking for sun, fun and wahines!

 

[outhereincali]

March 31, 1978 to February 8, 1982 honorable discharge. Made it to E/4. Went to Germany smoked a lot of hash, opium, drank a lot of German beer and even worse things. Explains why ended up going to Narcotics Anonymous.

 

[oldhorn2]

I was a war protester right up till I got into a two year ROTC program......The irony was that I was sent to Korea instead of Nam....go figure...

 

[StrangerHorn]

I came close to serving. Thought about it pretty hard then realized I’d be leaving my mom and sister alone in a bad part of town. I don’t regret it things worked out fine.

I don’t feel guilty people serve for different reasons. Money, education, country and in the past like my grandfather and cousins drafted.

I had a recruiter in high school basically tell me he could get me stationed in Hawaii. That’s what got my attention. 18yr old kid looking for sun, fun and wahines!

I would have done the same Long! giving the circumstances, I can tell ya from Exp. you would have seen Hawaii from the air on the way to Southeast Asia...Recruiters prey on our youth in HS with tales of Heroism and what they need to hear..or that old "Play COD for free shit!"

 

[Son of Wasatch]

I joined the reserves when I was in school never got called up for any active duty. Very uneventful 4 years.

 

[freeper]

My father was a decorated combat vet from WWII. Two older brothers served in Vietnam. I grew up in a Navy town. Growing up, all I ever wanted to be was a Marine. Graduated from high school went to the recruiter and blew the ASVAB away. I wanted a slot in intelligence and I even had two buddies signed up to go with me. Go for my physical and they tell me I've got hepatitis. I'd never been sick a day in my life. They said if I got my blood tested by my physician and it showed no issues, they'd take me. Well I did and the test was clean and they reneged. Then they wanted me to get a liver biopsy done at my expense or I'd receive a PMD (permanent military discharge).

By this time, my buddies had already departed for boot camp and I had no means of paying for the medical expenses I was accumulating for trying to volunteer. Over night I had to rearrange my life's goals. I enrolled in college and it ended up being alright. I spent a career in law enforcement that I loved and met my wife and had a family, all of which would have been very different if the Marines had taken me.

BTW, I found out many years later, that the blood test kits being used by the Marines at the time had come from a large chemical company my brother worked for. He told me that many of those test kits were tainted with Hepatitis.

 

[StrangerHorn]

My father was a decorated combat vet from WWII. Two older brothers served in Vietnam. I grew up in a Navy town. Growing up, all I ever wanted to be was a Marine. Graduated from high school went to the recruiter and blew the ASVAB away. I wanted a slot in intelligence and I even had two buddies signed up to go with me. Go for my physical and they tell me I've got hepatitis. I'd never been sick a day in my life. They said if I got my blood tested by my physician and it showed no issues, they'd take me. Well I did and the test was clean and they reneged. Then they wanted me to get a liver biopsy done at my expense or I'd receive a PMD (permanent military discharge).

By this time, my buddies had already departed for boot camp and I had no means of paying for the medical expenses I was accumulating for trying to volunteer. Over night I had to rearrange my life's goals. I enrolled in college and it ended up being alright. I spent a career in law enforcement that I loved and met my wife and had a family, all of which would have been very different if the Marines had taken me.

BTW, I found out many years later, that the blood test kits being used by the Marines at the time had come from a large chemical company my brother worked for. He told me that many of those test kits were tainted with Hepatitis.

Maybe that kit saved ya life! If ya had a went , well ya never know if ya would have come back..Fate is funny as shit thing free!

 

[clob94]

Found out the hard way after 9/11 that they aren't going to take a 26 year old ex football player with bum knees when they had their pick of the litter of 18 year olds that had never broken a bone, to choose from.