Read Tom Clancey's biography of Fred Franks (I'll give it to you if you want) where he explains that one of the problems in Vietnam and even into the early '80s was the number of young men given the option of prison or the military that went into the military and did a rotten job because they didn't want to be there...
-Curt Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:44:09 -0500 From: "arche...@embarqmail.com" <arche...@embarqmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] 85 people own half the worlds wealth and 99% of the non citizens Message-ID: <52e9ae69.8000...@embarqmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed That was common practice during the 1930s; prison or the army at $20 per month. That was before soldiers had any rights. An officer could shoot an enlisted man who refused or disobeyed a direct order and there were no criminal penalties filed against the officer, but there was a hearing to determine if the shooting was justified. Gerry On 1/27/2014 11:12 PM, Hendrik and Fay wrote: > .......I think giving young criminals a choice of serving in the > forces or jail, might be a good thing, as they already have some of > their life taken away. Hendrik who did not serve _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
