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Kiev Cracks Down on Gangs Helping Ukrainian Men to Dodge Military Draft – Move Comes as Conscription Goes Into Overdrive, Mobilizing the Old, the Infirm and even Women
Gateway Pundit ^

Posted on 09/18/2023 1:33:42 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe

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To: ansel12

I was in tech school in Texas.

Mainly anger at why we didn’t nuke somebody yet.

When I completed schooling and got to duty in Florida, the base had A1A shutdown and controlled via Security Forces personnel.(Patrick AFB)
The building I worked in had the entire front turned into a blast wall.
It was actually the building they showed Major Nelson reporting to work to in I Dream of Jeannie.


41 posted on 09/18/2023 5:25:09 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I won my permanent deferment from the draft and then enlisted in the Army, I had my own ways of doing things, and I only respected people doing things out of principle, not fear or cowardice which is why I despised the guys who would flee the country.


42 posted on 09/18/2023 5:43:39 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Shoulda called the FBI. Back then they did go after Canada-runners sometimes.

Funny thing is that today, amongst my peer group (people in their 70s), I can find no one who didn’t support the troops. No one who dodged the draft. Funny how that works. They all say they supported the troops. That’s not how I remember it when I got discharged in 1971 and the war was still raging.


43 posted on 09/19/2023 8:27:41 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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