DU vets: Would you put on the uniform again?

[cynatnite]

Six months ago if you had asked me 'would I put on a uniform again' I would have said yes without thinking twice.

Now...how can I when what I swore an oath to defend is but a shadow of it's former self?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Fraid I wouldn't fit the uniform anymore.

It would take more than Basic to pour me back into the ol' jungle fatigues.

[tularetom]

7. Me too! I've gained 50 lbs in 40 years

Depends on where I perceived the threat was coming from. At my age I don't have a lot to lose but I'd still have to believe in what I was doing, not some bullshit made up terra alert.

[pecwae]

2. No, for the reason you have stated. nt

[Mountainman]

3. I didn't want to put it on in the first place. I was drafted and I am

proud to say that I never got a re-up talk. The military didn't want me either.

[BrotherBuzz]

12. You were asked, you just don't remember

This dumb draftee remembers vividly when my section Master Sargent apologized before he gave me the re-up talk, explaining he was required to do it; all enlisted troops are asked before they leave the service.

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. I think that's right

After my two years were about up I got that talk. I said something like, "Are you serious Top." He said it was required, or something like that. Being drafted is like being sent to prison for a crime you didn't commit.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. The E-7 who asked me had already announced that he was

getting out after 14 (iirc). He made sort of a joke of asking me.

[madokie]

4. but not for an idiot in chief such as we have now

under the right circumstances I would in an okie heartbeat

[NavyDavy]

5. not until a dem is back in the WH

[Monkeyman]

6. I have to protest budget cuts

Would I go back to combat no way. I love my Country but not for lies never again

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. Mine no longer fits

after 36 years of eating and drinking.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. 4 eternal years in the Marine Crotch cured me of that idea.

I can't imagine a relapse into the notion that being in a uniform is somehow beneficial to anyone other than the bosses.

[namvet73]

10. No F**KING WAY!

1) I thought we learned our lesson when I hung mine up in 1973, but we didn't
2) Serve a president who refused to serve, himself because he "had better things to do?" No way!
3) 75 lb heavier, 40 years older and wiser
4) This administration has made a mockery out of people who serve by not only violating the constitution, but trying to destroy it.
5) I don't want to get torchered in a way that this administration approves of
6) My present duty to my country is to help kick these crooks out!

[madokie]

11. My present duty to my country is to help kick these crooks out!

I like that
to DU and glad you are with us.

[MGD]

14. My ass is still sore from the last fucking Uncle Sam gave me.

There'd have to be some very serious shit for me to play Army again.
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[mikeyj84]

16. put the uniform on again?

Not for these asshole in washington,of which the top five assholes never served!

[Solo_in_MD]

17. Medically Ineglible

In fact I had to leave the service for it. However, if they would give me my old job back, I could be tempted.