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In reply to the discussion: UTTERLY REVOLTING! Military Dumped Hundreds Of Dead Troops In Landfills During Bush Presidency [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And that actually part of the problem. After the attack on Pearl the military had to turn away volunteers. I expected the same. Hell, I talked to recruiters, and they were willing to ahem ignore a lot of things, well except my husband was active duty, and deployed. It would have gotten weird.
So I asked the recruiter out of curiosity. I mean zero line ok. This is a few days after. He got me, and a B-17 pilot. Well, this was after the keep shopping comment from Junior.
Think about that for a second and Nixon's comment.mind you, that old war pilot and me were not volunteering without knowledge. And as I said, hubby was active duty.
It is things like that, and the abuse of the force, and attempted back door draft, that have convinced many vets of the current adventures that Americans will not wake up until their kids are in formation at boot camp. And do not get me started with family who has never served but shit, no issue whatsoever if other kids go to the meat grinder.
Oh and the brass opposes a draft, of course they do.