In the past few months I read many question about the military and young men wanting not to serve. I taught my son to love his country, his flag, and his freedom. Was that because I was in the Army or did we go wrong somewhere? It really frustrates me?
2007-12-27 15:33:13 · 8 answers · asked by path2631 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Enlisted `1976 served activing unitl 1984 then went Reservist then activated for Desert Storm Dec 90-thru May 91 then back to Reserve status thr May 97 retiring
2007-12-28 01:24:41 · update #1
i dont get it either. millions of men and women died in horible way far from home so you didnt have to. they died and took a bullit for you to ahve the ability to choose to be free and you deny you obligation and debt to these heros by not serving. rediculous and ungratful. unless you are curring cancer or helping charities you shoudl help some way.
2007-12-27 18:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by Para-diddle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the time a kid is old enough to enlist these days there's a fair chance that they know someone who has been killed or wounded in Iraq. Like tens of millions of other Americans, they question whether dying needlessly in Iraq really serves their country. Some can see how enlisting is a way to serve their country, and some cannot. Many think that the way the military is being used currently is more of a way to make a group of rich people richer than it is a way to keep America secure.
2007-12-28 03:45:42 · answer #2 · answered by Scott B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I turned 18 in 1969...
I wasn't particularly keen on going into army....
but I got high draft lottery numbers.
(288...329!....334!!!!!)
from link:
THE VIETNAM LOTTERIES
A lottery drawing - the first since 1942 - was held on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970, that is, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950. Reinstitution of the lottery was a change from the "draft the oldest man first" method, which had been the determining method for deciding order of call.
There were 366 blue plastic capsules containing birth dates placed in a large glass container and drawn by hand to assign order-of-call numbers to all men within the 18-26 age range specified in Selective Service law.
http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm
wound up doing 10 years in USCG anyway......
Suspect there were people in WW1 and WW2 that were not happy about serving in military.
And the Civil War also..
nothing new there....
gonna have to make boot camp longer though....
beat that gangsta wannabe in your face attitude out of them.
and then there all the potential recruits that are on meds for bi polar...tri polar...and quadripolar disorders.....and ADD....and drugs...and alcohol...and std's.....
The pool of potential candidates pretty shallow compared with the past if all the modern NOW A GO GO diseases and maladies and mental illnesses are not dealt with in some fashion by the military....
Did you join or were you drafted?...that might make a difference.
2007-12-27 23:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by zuezug 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I really feel that I was brought up very different then the young people today. While I'm not saying they are bad, but just different. My dad and my friends dads were WW2 vets. They taught us discipline and told us it was our duty to serve.
One night I watched this show they interviewed several young college students and asked if they were planning to serve. One said he hadn't ruled it our the rest said "I pursuing my education and going to school" ( in other words no).
I guess I can't blame young people, is this war really right and look at the way vets coming back have been treated (although I have to say they have it much better than us vietnam vets did).
2007-12-28 18:32:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To much CNN. I'm 18 and enlisted as artillery cannon crewmember. Hoping to leave for combat in 2008.
2007-12-28 01:37:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most Americans now want freedom with no sacrifice, and they get it.
2007-12-27 23:41:24 · answer #6 · answered by DOOM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's because you were in the Army. I was in the Army too, but I suspect (note: suspect) that you were in it a little earlier then I was. As for the current Army, I would never let my child enlist.
2007-12-27 23:36:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
Because we're don't want to fight in unjust wars for bad leadership in the executive branch of our government.
2007-12-28 00:14:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋