On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 7:28:37 PM UTC-4, Ivan The Terrible wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 5:09:04 AM UTC-7, Kevrob wrote:
> > On Monday, October 14, 2019 at 8:38:41 PM UTC-4, Ivan The Terrible wrote:
> >
> > > You really think the USA will deport a man who fought for her in the
> > > Navy for 6 years? YOU ARE ONE SILLY MOTHERFUCKER
> >
> > Fought? Served, I'll believe.
> >
> > Combat veterans fought.
> >
> > --
> > Kevin R
> > a.a #2310
>
> Obviously, you are as ignorant of the military as you are of everything else.
> When in the service, you go where you are assigned and do what you are ordered to do. I joined the Navy. They assigned me to NAS GLENVIEW , OCS, and then to USS NASHVILLE and then to USS AJAX.
>
> I was safe from the draft in the Reserves, but volunteered for active duty.
> I wanted to defend my country.
> Arrogant chickenshits like you stayed home and let us vets do all the work and take all the chances. It was not always safe. I almost drowned in a storm in Crete in 1973 when my boat capsized.
>
> I guess you are too stupid to know that North Vietnam didn't have much of a navy. That's why I missed combat.
That didn't stop the USN from fighting in-country, using riverine forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-water_navy#Vietnam_War
Remember John Kerry and the "Swift Boats?"
I looked into joining ROTC after a couple of years in college, but I
was out-of-shape and sickly, to the point that I had to withdraw from
school to get better, before working a few years, then completing my
degree. I doubt I would have passed the physical. The draft was over
by then, and the Army and Navy were scrabbling to get enough recruits
with good enough academic records for the ROTC scholarships.
Regarding Tandy's Naval service: anybody who goes to sea puts himself
"in harm's way," if not from an enemy, than from the weather, or training
accidents. Service members still die or are wounded in the service of their
country during peacetime. [Remember peacetime, when the country isn't fighting
_anywhere_? Some of the younger posters may not.] Still, those deaths and
injuries are not from combat, and their squadmates and shipmates who escaped
unscathed did not serve in combat. At worst, it was "hazardous duty,"
which is not nothing!
The term "Viet Nam Era veteran" is often used to refer to those who served
outside the Indochina War theater of the 60s and 70s.