Comments on: Off the Reservation: War Support http://archive.longislandpress.com/2010/08/12/off-the-reservation-war-support/ Serving the opinion leaders of Long Island Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: In Lieu Of http://archive.longislandpress.com/2010/08/12/off-the-reservation-war-support/comment-page-1/#comment-71968 In Lieu Of Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:22:49 +0000 http://www.longislandpress.com/?p=104494#comment-71968 Very ignorant, crankypaul. We don’t have a professional military at all. My unit (and several others) parked our howitzers and went to Iraq to be prison guards, with training that consisted mainly of warnings not to act like the real MPs had up at Abu Ghraib.

We volunteered to serve, and served proudly, but our service was badly misused, to say the least. Everything we gave was for nothing- we got to fight in a stupid war that an ignorant population took too long to catch on to.

I’m pretty jealous, cranky. that whole guaranteed MOS sounds like a sweet deal. But in the end, what we signed up for was to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” We didn’t do any of that, either.

]]> By: crankypaul http://archive.longislandpress.com/2010/08/12/off-the-reservation-war-support/comment-page-1/#comment-71259 crankypaul Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:05:09 +0000 http://www.longislandpress.com/?p=104494#comment-71259 Being of the generation of Viet Nam veterans, and being one myself, I can’t wrap my enthusiasm around supporting todays soldiers. Each and ever one of them volunteered for the duty they wound up in, if not deliberately, then by default. They all wanted to either serve their country or at least get the perks of the part time job they assumed they would be signing up for. They volunteered to get involved with anything that the military got involved with. We did not. We had choices no doubt, but conscription was mandated and the choices were simply to either get drafted and take you chances or else volunteer for service and only with a four year commitment did you get a guarantee of MOS. Not necessarily of where you would go, but at least what you would do when you got there. With todays professional military we have paid soldiers doing what they asked to do. No they may not want the combat and may have not signed up to fight, but they certainly did volunteer to do whatever Uncle Sam decided needing doing.

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