Posted on 09/15/2014 7:16:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You and I were both at Red Cloud, but I was there ten years prior to you. I know what you mean. I saw the attitudes when I was there. I just don’t believe it’s the best idea when it’s proven we can have a very successful volunteer military. Attitude means something, and sometimes what it means is the difference between living, and dying.
Do most developed countries have a 13th Amendment?
With all of the remote controlled high tech stuff, I say let the old folks who want to break things and kill people have at it as volunteers.
Tell me, then, how we had it in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea, the cold war and Vietnam?
I think he had a sarcasm tag at the end of his comment.
Thanks for the memories. That MP directing traffic at the gate was me, but in 1966.
The PX up at the back of the compound had the absolutely best raised donuts, and fried chicken in the entire World.
Hey, if you want to compare national emergencies with an apparent shortage of drone pilots, or whatever they were gibbering about in this stupid article, knock yourself out. If you imagine for one minute that their draft would turn out patriotic citizens then you have not been paying attention. And S. Korea has a nut-job neighbor that has already invaded them once, so their situation is not quite analogous to ours, is it?
We have Southern neighbors invading us, last time I checked.
Did they have the “Bullseye Inn” back then, I think it was called that had their version of a Whopper or Big Mac called a Smuggler?
That is absolutely true and the people who would be running a new draft are the same people who are facilitating the invasion. The draftees would probably be manning welcome stations for our newest democrat voters.
That photo is from 1965, so right before your time.
So you’ve given up? Which country are you moving to?
I haven't given up anything. I just strongly disagree with you about a draft under this administration and today's circumstances.
The Bullseye Inn is not something I recollect at all. May have come about after I departed in February 1968. The usual EM clubs, NCO, and Officers clubs, but anything else you wanted was at the PX up in the back. We had the Kimchi Commanche Club at the 55th MP compound just over the tracks to the right as you headed into Uijongbu. The mess at the 55th was the absolute best. Lots of awards year after year. We ate well.
Please explain your flawed reasoning. How can you equate a volunteer to a mercenary?
I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1984. I spent 23 years serving this great republic. I sure as hell didn’t do it for the money. Two of my sons enlisted. One in the army and one in the Marine Corps. Again, money had nothing to do with it. You do a great disservice to those of us who have voluntarily given up the best years of our live to protect this country.
Draft all of the boys into infantry training first. Clean ‘em up and make men of ‘em. It would also lead to a revival of real conservatism.
> I think he had a sarcasm tag at the end of his comment.
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I am using the term mercenary to mean a paid professional army not an army of conscripts.
But yes, even mercenaries who are not nationals of the army they fight for are often better troops than conscripts. You see this clearly in battalions like the British Ghurkas or French Foreign Legion. These are units that do not fight for their county but are highly regarded and recognized for bravery good soldiery.
Would anyone enlist if they were not paid, regardless of how patriotic they are? Not under normal circumstances.
Perhaps you are reading a negative connotation into the word mercenary that I am not implying. The best troops, since Roman times have professional soldiers, not conscripts. It simply does not matter where a professional soldier is a national of the country he fights for or not.
I love your tagline and I agree with you.
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