Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

False equivalency flag thrown on you, again.

Putting in papers for retirement after 24 years of service with multiple deployments is NOT the same as using phony bone spurs to AVOID service.

The NG, and in my case the USMCR, are not evasive of service unless YOU believe that recruits are sent to 'special boot camps' distinguished from 'regular' boot camps and that a 6 year commitment is a walk in the park.

I remember my DI referring to us as scum bag reserves. His tune changed towards the end of boot camp when he shared with us that the first draftees into the Corps since WWII were arriving. 'At least you guys volunteered. You don't want to see how were going to treat these scumbag draftees.' So different degrees of scumbags.

He was right about our not wanting to see that. I muttered to a fellow recruit 'what time does the f'ing bus leave for Lejeune?'

Anyway I did it so I could work part time and go to school part time. No part time for those two during a wartime draft without part time military service. Simple triad and the right one for me as Vietnam spiraled into the disaster it became.

Though no one ever said they wouldn't show up if activated. I'd say go figure but everyone of us had chosen the most dangerous branch and it was an infantry unit. So a screw or two loose right off the bat. Phony tough or foolishly brave?

Perhaps a Gumpian 'a little a both'.