DON'T ENLIST: from former NATIONAL GUARD POSTER BOY?

Question

Is this wrong for a soldier, when the demand is high?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBJdyEczNlg

Lt Watada:
http://www.livevideo.com/video/sm0ky/C7065008F9D44FEF9250EA9EA68480CE/1st-lt-watada-conscientious-rejector.aspx

Answer 1

He's entitled to his own opinion, but he shouldn't be doing it in uniform. It's disrespectful and it's traitorous.

Answer 2

Ok, first off, he is National Guard. He doesnt put the uniform on everyday and live his life as a soldier. Second, did he actually serve in Iraq or Afghanistan? We didn't see his right shoulder to see if he has a combat patch. If you have never been, you really have no right to say how things should be run over there. Thirdly, he should have an article 15 placed on him for doing this video in uniform. Tell him and all people like him to put the uniform on everyday and do your job and serve your country. Do i like the war, no, but did i do my duty and serve in iraq and afghanistan, yes, because it is what i swore i would do. That is what a soldier does.

Answer 3

I have been in the National Guard since I was 18 and served in Iraq. I have to disagree with what this soldier did. You don't disrespect the uniform and go public with a negative view of the military. I encourage people to join the National Guard. To many people like me it has helped gain employment , college, and seeing the world. I hope this soldier gets kicked out of the military soon.

Answer 4

The National Guard Poster Boy needs a haircut. He is totally out of regulation grooming standards. A true military man would know better.

Answer 5

I think that when you enlist you are signing knowing that for WHATEVER cause or reason may be behind it you could and will be called into action. When you sign your name you are very aware of this. Whatever your own beliefs or religion you KNOW this. Especially after 9/11 you knew what was most likely gonna happen, so its your bad if you got called and didn't want to go. You signed to fight for this country at whatever the cost may be so why cry about when you get the orders. Thats what you train for. You have the right to your own opinion and beliefs but when called into action you put that aside. Don't join if you are not willing to fight for your country, its as simple as that.

Answer 6

And you believe that ?

Did you notice, the blurred the face everytime they showed the " posters"

Just look at the guys haircut, and you can tell he's not in the National Guard.

100 to 1 odds, this is another fake veteran just like all the rest of the videos.

Answer 7

Who has the most right to criticize the way a military is being led? Some dumb civilian, or a serving soldier who's been there?

Regardless of whether or not he's right, let him talk. Trying to suppress critics is nothing short of cowardly. It's not likely he'll have swayed many people from enlisting, anyway.

Answer 8

Another fake video thrown on youtube. Look at the "Poster Boy's" haircut. Hardly within regs. If you talk some smack like that, at least have the decency to make it believable. Like most youtube.com I quit watching after about 10 seconds.

Answer 9

yes it is wrong it is actually a crime. i believe that people should join up and serve because they will grow as people learn respect and work ethic and get to see the world. when he joined up he knew that he might have to go to war. people that join up just for education should be the first ones to go to war because the best way to learn is to do.

Answer 10

I'm pretty sure it's illegal for him to do that in uniform, and I hope someone important sees that.

I will say this for him: at least he's been in the Army (kind of, anyway), and he can make a somewhat educated decision about it.

I've always said that if you're afraid to go to war, you shouldn't enlist (I would say "don't want to go to war," but none of us want to go to war.) War is what we do, and if you can't handle it, you shouldn't pretend that you can.