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To: Bob
...Navy (in my case) were where people went to avoid getting drafted...

LOL

And all this time I've been pleased with myself about the reactions I'd get when I told about enlisting to evade the draft....

After a couple of years' exposure to ROTC units at the college I'd attended, when I well and truly screwed up in '64 and dropped out, then promptly got my "Greetings" letter, it didn't take more than the time to find a recruiter to decide I wanted no part at all with any of those fledgling AhMay types in charge. Even if all I did was police up the area and go to the latrine under their command.

Wound up with less sea duty time than some people had falling overboard, got shot at (accidentally and without effect) exactly one time and have forever since referred to the whole affair as My Ten Million Dollar Experience: Wouldn't take a million for the people I met and the places/things I saw, wouldn't take NINE damn million to do it again.

20 posted on 02/04/2016 7:21:05 PM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (God gives us rights; Governments take them away....if we let them.)
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

I spent nine years in the Navy to avoid getting drafted for two. :=)


24 posted on 02/04/2016 7:28:31 PM PST by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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