Reply #3: All of the points above are valid and correct. [View All]

[woofless]

I would like to add that it was extremely difficult around that time to get INTO any guard, reseserve or Coast Guard unit. The spaces were filled. The point being that W bumped ahead of a LOT of young men to get his position. There was nothing wrong with trying to stay out of Viet Nam. I enlisted in the Air Force with that goal in mind, and it worked. It almost backfired. They sent half of our tech school class to Bien Hoa as forward air control. I went to Turkey. We did not then nor do we now begrudge those that served in the guard or reserve. Yeah, we ragged them but there was an element of envy there. They were safe.

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