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To: SendShaqtoIraq; TexasTransplant
" How do you QUIT the armed forces?"

A secret that they don’t want you to know in boot camp is that you can just quit (at least that’s what I’ve been told). Just like TexasTransplant says, people are not in the Marines until they complete boot camp. Therefore, because they can’t be “discharged” from something they were never in, there’s no BCD or other than honorable discharge.

But after helping managed the Camp Pendleton “transient platoon” for a few months after graduation, I think waiting there for many weeks in harsh conditions to process out is as bad as boot camp. Worse considering they’re reminded every minute that they’re washouts.

63 posted on 09/18/2004 10:48:45 AM PDT by elfman2
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To: elfman2
"But after helping managed the Camp Pendleton “transient platoon” for a few months after graduation, I think waiting there for many weeks in harsh conditions to process out is as bad as boot camp. Worse considering they’re reminded every minute that they’re washouts."

...Which thereby establishes a "motive" for Dan's anti-Vietnam war crusade, and for his later anti-Bush vendetta.

The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!

69 posted on 09/18/2004 11:21:36 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: elfman2

But after helping managed the Camp Pendleton “transient platoon” for a few months after graduation, I think waiting there for many weeks in harsh conditions to process out is as bad as boot camp. Worse considering they’re reminded every minute that they’re washouts.

Putting 2 and 2 together, I now think I understand why Dan Rather Hates the Military and America his fixation on Clinton (the only President that I know of that loathed the Military)

 


82 posted on 09/18/2004 1:08:39 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (I made my Fortune selling Sugar Coated Cat Turds on a Stick at the DNC Convention)
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