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National Guard/Reserves

rocktonrockton Member Posts: 551 ✭✭✭
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
What is your opinion of individuals who joined the Guard or Reserves during the Vietnam Conflict.

Enough said.

Thanks

Rockton

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  • PATBUZZARDPATBUZZARD Member Posts: 3,556 ✭
    edited November -1
    I would have to say it depends why they joined. A lot of guardsmen from the 60s-70s got a really bad rap, because so many joined to avoid the draft. I am in the guard now, and i know this sounds ridiculus, but I am hoping to get deployed. I am also considering going active as soon as i graduate from college.

    May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
    - General George Patton Jr
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  • woodshermitwoodshermit Member Posts: 2,589
    edited November -1
    During the VN era, I believe that, by far, those who joined the Guard were trying to avoid the draft and being sent to VN. Where I lived in Virginia, you could not get into the Guard because there was a long waiting list. Exceptions were made, of course, depending on your connections. I think a LOT of young men joined the Air Force or Navy in an attempt to at least avoid combat if not service in VN. There was a waiting list for the Coast Guard, also. It is unfair to compare today's National Guard to the Guard of the 60s and 70s. Hindsight can easily be 20-20.
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