Subject: Re: Putin's Christmas List
Practically, draftees would be little more than "meat" and cannon fodder.

That's what we were, thus my move to the 82d, the rest of my training unit shipped to Vietnam. I stayed stateside. Also, my father became Deputy Surgeon of Vietnam - planned the medical evacuation, then had a heart attack and retired.

There were fellows at jump training who dropped out of training because they wanted to go to Vietnam. Not me, I met guys coming back from Nam and it changed them. Later, anyone who'd been in the service, hid that fact for a while. I did get injured in a bad jump, and 20 years later it blew out, but I had a successful operation on my back.

I've had service friends on disability tell me they can show me how to get disability. There's only one problem - I'm not disabled. I lived my life one way and I'm not going to change it. It's been a good way.