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WAR – Think it won’t happen to you?
Many of the U.S. soldiers who fought in Vietnam, Grenada, Panama and the Persian Gulf, never expected they would be the ones to see combat. Many of the Reserve soldiers who fought in the Gulf had been told that this would never happen to them. Recruiters often tell new enlistees that they won’t be going to Iraq, they make promises about special training programs and technical job assignments.
Remember, your training, location and job assignment can be changed by the military at any time, for any reason, no matter what you were promised, and no matter what it says in your enlistment “contract”. The main purpose of the military is to fight wars, and if you enlist you will have no choice if you are ordered to fight for something you don’t believe in—like protecting a foreign dictator or oil profits.
After enlisting, if you discover that your religious, moral or ethical beliefs won’t allow you to kill, it will be hard for you to get a discharge as a conscientious objector (hundreds of U.S. soldiers were imprisoned when they objected to the Persian Gulf War).
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Topics: Broken Promises, Military Facts |