[Bluntpoint]

I spent four years in navy as corpsman. I treated sailors and marines for the same condition and worse. They recovered and continued to serve their country.

Why can't we just call a spade a spade.

I may have tried anything myself to get out of serving during vietnam. My brother went in the national guard. Not because he thought that he could do just as good a job defending his country by doing so, no, he was scared to death of going to nam. Our neighbor and one his best friends was shot down and killed in nam a year before. That terrified my brother.

My brother never made claim that he was not doing anything else other than avoiding nam by joining the guard.

[AppyPappy]

Nonetheless, you needed a good excuse to get out of it.