[investigateworld]

"It's about time"
And right you are. No one in my basic company ever saw an M-60 machine gun, M-79 grenade launcher, we heard there were such things as Claymore, but never saw a clacker.
After basic I remained at the same post (Ft. Ord) and often met with my basic buddies for cold ones at Stillwell Hall. As late as the week before graduation, the guys in 11B training hadn't fired an M-60.
But in all honesty, we had the shiniest shoes and we could field strip a floor buffer blinded folded.
Dam LBJ, Robt McNamara and all the lifer suck up officers to hell.
No wonder Bush One could stand to be around the "Jeep Driver" Danny Quail, he knew the training was lousy and could blame the boy(s) for taking the coward option... enough rant ... I could go all night!!!!!!!!!

[Kitanis]

Hopefully your son gets a MOS that he can enjoy and benefit from. I would not recommend the Infantry or the military police.. that would be by far the worse.

I am active duty USAF and have deployed once to the Area of Responisibility. Like the previous posters have said.. No area in the rear is totally safe.. so tell him to just be careful if he depoys out there.

Of course he has to go through basic trainining and whatever technical and advanced infantry training first.. so it will be at least four to five months before he could in theroy be deployed.

I wish him well in his future in the military

[investigateworld]

Ahhem ...make that "could not blame the boy(s) for taking the coward option..."