(February 20, 2023 at 7:13 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I often said that being in the military was preferable to working for a living.
Having spent 2½ years in Vietnam, I disagree completely. I was underpaid, the working hours were long and hard, and soldiers got little respect, if any. Most officers and senior NCO's regarded enlisted men as nothing more than something they would scrape off the bottom of their shoes. At the end of my last tour, I was entitled to an early discharge, which Uncle Sam tried to screw me out of. I didn't know anything about Stop Loss Orders at the time. I finally got my early discharge with the help of my congressman. After that, I wouldn't have re-enlisted in the army if they paid me a $50,000 bonus.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)