George C. Patton, like George W. Bush, did not serve in Vietnam. Therefore I will respectfully trust my eyes over his opinions when trying to sort out what happened.
carpio
The fact that he did not serve in Viet Nam does not make one bit of difference.
While some of us were there, the home land was being defended by those who strayed here. Their term of obligation was more than twice as long as ours. (6 years for most)
Your claim that only the rich elite were given guard duty makes me suspect the validity of your actual service. Because if you did serve then, you would have known that the rich merely sent their sons to College to get them deferments, or they sent them overseas to Europe and such to make them ineligible.