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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
...and I restate myself:
...and, some of us have been semi "there" (Viet Nam), so we DO have some idea (albeit not identical) of what it was like.
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THanks for your service. My oldest brother was in the 1st Marines working on battle damage repair on Intruders (I think, from memory). I went to Richmond for a pre-induction physical two weeks after my 18th birthday, in December of 1969. They "found" a hernia and I was classified as 1Y which meant they had to declare war and then could draft me and force me to have the operation.
I had it fixed at age 58. I thought of the later vets as I posted about POP, but he flew over enemy territory and the allied pilots knew they could easily be pitchforked if they were shot down over Germany. That applies to any pilot who flew missions in Vietnam and most here know of the suffering of John McCain and others at the hands of the North. The only difference I see is in WW2 there was a chance we would loose the war, although when the UAS entered that chance became practically 0.
regards
Mech