When / where did you serve?

[Dan Shapiro]

"What did you think about the college bunch demonstrating and the draft dodgers going to Canada? "

They had a right to be stupid and demonstrate. As for the draft dodgers who went to Canada. Goodbye! We had more respect for those who went to jail for their beliefs. Worst thing that a$$hole in Chief Carter did was the pardon. I'm sure John Kerry sends him a Christmas Card each year for that.

[Sarge]

The bastards should have been stripped of their citizenship and sent to Hanoi!!! By air of course, air dropped from 20,000 feet with a bomb tied to their feet!
Even today No dumb SOB Ever wants to let me hear him bragging about going to Canada and then coming back years later. I will most likely put him in the hospital!
Sarge

[El Paso Mark]

Have not heard Kiddie Cruiser for a long time. A Kiddie Cruiser had to be signed in by his parents because he was a minor at 17 years old. When you turned 21 you were a legal adult and your parents consent was null and void.

I joined the Army a month after I turned 17. Don't remember if mom had to sign for me or not. That was a long time ago.

C & D Co. 2/502 101st Airborne '74 - '77 (REFORGER '76)

FCTCLANT & Pax River NAS '79 - '81
USS Decatur DDG-31 '81 - '83
USS Callaghan DDG-994 '83 - '86
PMTC Pt. Mugu, Ca. '86 - '88
USS Vincennes CG-49 '88 - '92
FCTCPAC '92 - '96

7 WestPacs, twice to the Persian Gulf, twice to the I.O.

Cheers,

Mark

[Thomasm]

The bastards should have been stripped of their citizenship and sent to Hanoi!!! By air of course, air dropped from 20,000 feet with a bomb tied to their feet!
Even today No dumb SOB Ever wants to let me hear him bragging about going to Canada and then coming back years later. I will most likely put him in the hospital!
Sarge

Bad as I hate to say it, they had the right to leave(my country, love it or leave it). I don't believe they had the right to return. If they had any sense of honor, they wouldn't consider comming back. We do have the right to be yellow.

[Michaelp]

Biggest problem with the guys who ran is that they broke the law and were given pardons.
It was a complicated time and situation, but the pardons were way out of line.
Some guys who got discharged with bad paper were given the opportunity for reviiew, but sure weren't pardoned.

Scary thing today os that with the draft being over a generation in the past, current guys who shirk service are actually offended by the thought of mandatory service. A s if it was for some sort of lesser being.

[LMDawson]

USAF McChord AFB, WA. 89-92
Jet Engine mechanic on the C-141's.

Best Regards
Lisa

[Dan In Indiana]

Chu Lai by the Sea
Sept. '67 to Jan. '69
The first part was leading up to 'Nam, Tet of '68 was noisy.

[173rd]

63-64 Ft. Leonard Wood, Ft. Polk, Ft. Benning
64-65 Okinawa 173rd Airborne Brigade, 2ndBn/503rdInf
65-66 Vietnam 173rd, 2nd/503rd

[Sarge]

Bad as I hate to say it, they had the right to leave(my country, love it or leave it). I don't believe they had the right to return. If they had any sense of honor, they wouldn't consider comming back. We do have the right to be yellow.

Yes, they had the "right" to leave, But they did NOT have any right to return unless it was to serve a jail term! They should have forfieted their citizenship when they crossed the border!
Sarge

[TomSudz]

If they had any sense of honor, they wouldn't consider comming back. We do have the right to be yellow.

If they had any sense of honor, they wouldn't have run off.