Retraction of posts

[assoholic]

..without Pear Harbour and the Declaration of Wars against her the US would have never entered WW2.
To suggest otherwise is just plain ridiculous.
Thus the whole reason FDR manouvered the Japanese into attacking.
FDR knew if Hitler had won, very soon Nazi Germany would have posed a huge threat to the US.
Your constant attempts at trying to link Iraq with WW2 are going nowhere
with any-one who knows anything about that conflict.

 

[assoholic]

..part of what made the US unique in the world and why West Point is an engineering school or was. The US had no standing army as you point out.
Once the war was over it was disbanded.
Its creation in WW2 fundamentally changed the dynamics of the US
power structures.
FDR first tried to inflame the Germans with all that support for the Brittish
and Russians, when that failed he had the US navy attack German Subs.
When that failed he pursued plan B, an oil embargo against Japan,
the rest we know.

 

[assoholic]

...no FDR showed true courage, and I think he made the right call.
The problem started after WW2, when the Pentagon became too powerful.
The US spends more on the Military then the rest of the world combined I
believe, that is ridiculous.

 

[assoholic]

Ike and then Kennedy were two great Presidents.
Unfortunately with his death a new era was entered, the puppet, though I do think Nixon as well was independant. He obviously pissed off the wrong group and Watergate was used to get rid of him.

 

[someone]

Eisenhower was a true patriot that understood the Constitution
and how it worked. I have a personal affection for JFK; he was
his own man. `Ask not what your country can do for you, ask
what you can do for your country` inspired me to volunteer for
`Nam. Nixon is a dicotomy for me. When he was in the public
arena he irritated me, but the books he wrote after his departure
were the works of a genius.

But I thought you said you were drafted in the following thread?
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78309&highlight=conscription

 

[onthebottom]

But I thought you said you were drafted in the following thread?
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78309&highlight=conscription

Oops.

OTB

 

[someone]

Oops.

OTB

There could be an explanation. An example might be getting drafted when he was young and serving in Europe or someplace and then volunteering to re-enlist for Vietnam or something like that. However, I think in another post he said that only three years of his service was full time. Still, I’m willing to believe that there is an explanation that I have not thought of that would make both posts true so I phrased my post as a question and not an accusation

 

[WoodPeckr]

But I thought you said you were drafted in the following thread?
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78309&highlight=conscription

Oops.

OTB

Calm down bot....

Many who were drafted back then volunteered to go to Nam.
Everyone who was drafted back then did not go to Nam. Many of the draftees back then went to Korea, Germany or remained Stateside and never saw duty in Nam. Duty in both Germany and Korea was very tedious. Some, for this reason volunteered to go to Nam to escape the `Mickey Mouse` Army rules regimen in both Germany, Korea and Stateside duty, or for the quicker promotions available in a war zone, or for the action and `excitement`, you know the.....the Rambo factor........

Plus you were drafted for two years but if you volunteered for OCS, Officer Candidate School, that extended your hitch another 4-6 years.

 

[onthebottom]

The day after I graduated from college I received
my notice from the draft board to report for a physical
for the purpose of being conscripted. After receiving
the notice I went to my local Army recruitment office
and after reviewing my options I volunteered for the
draft and was assigned to officer candidate school.
When serving at Ft. Campbell KY with the 101st as
a 2nd Lt. I volunteered for 'Nam and went through
the military advisory program at Ft. Bragg, NC. I
then served in 'Nam in 68-69.

I was notified I was being processed for conscription.
I then took the offensive and volunteered to get the
best possible assignments available.

What do you call that?

Serving your nation honorably.

OTB

 

[elegantangel113]

After the decision by the US Supreme Court, I am waiting for all the posters who have claimed over the last 2 years, that the Geneva conventions do not have relevance to the detained combattants, to follow CharlieCharlie's example and retract their posts. Please.

I am waiting for someone who actually gives a shit.

 

[someone]

The day after I graduated from college I received
my notice from the draft board to report for a physical
for the purpose of being conscripted. After receiving
the notice I went to my local Army recruitment office
and after reviewing my options I volunteered for the
draft and was assigned to officer candidate school.
When serving at Ft. Campbell KY with the 101st as
a 2nd Lt. I volunteered for 'Nam and went through
the military advisory program at Ft. Bragg, NC. I
then served in 'Nam in 68-69.

I was notified I was being processed for conscription.
I then took the offensive and volunteered to get the
best possible assignments available.

What do you call that?

I was just curious (even though it was none of my business). Thanks for the response.

 

[elegantangel113]

You are new to the board.
This was a very hotly debated issue.

and who is going to give a shit to go and delete their posts? probably no one. hotly debated or not.