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Originally Posted by Rochard
Sorry fucker, you don't choose who to fight, when to fight, or where. You signed up for the military.
My father was a US Marine who died in Vietnam when I was nine months old. We can argue and debate why we were in Vietnam until the cows come home, but at the end of the day my father signed up for the military, and our government - for better or for worse - decided to send our troops to Vietnam. You can go back and question why US troops were deployed to any country and never come to a proper reason - Why did we send troops to fight Nazi Germany, or Korea, or Vietnam?
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There are some that simply seem not to understand the oath they are taking and they have this idea that the movies accurately portray what military life or war actually is.
I once knew an eighteen year old that had enlisted and did not last even two weeks of basic training before being given a General Discharge under less than Honorable conditions. He complained that they woke him up at 4:30 AM and had him doing pushups in gravel which he said was painful to his hands. Oh shivers.