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Conscription- Would you serve?

Would you Serve if you were conscripted?


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I've had more knock down drag outs with stupid butter bars and the like to last me for several lifetimes. In hindsight its a very good thing we were unarmed because I for one would have shot several of them if I had been. No joke.

the problem with most butter bars is that they don't know dick about being in the military. they do 4 years in college, 6-8 weeks at OCS and then they throw them out in charge of a platoon of guys. Personally, I think that you should have to have been enlisted for at least 4-5 years before they give you a commission. Most of the really good officers I have ever met were all prior enlisted. I was enlisted for over 11 years before I got commissioned
 
it depends on the type work. I worked closely with the safety contractor when I was deployed to Iraq and I know he was making $$$$$. he didn't like the contractor's quarters so he was staying at the hotel at the Basrah airport at $3000 a month. My oldest son is a code writer for HVAC automation and he is leaving for Afghanistan in October and they are going to pay him $1000/day plus expenses.

Depends on the gig. Logistics does not pay as much as more technical jobs.
 
To answer Liberal Avengers question more completly, We made about 3000 a month base pay as a driver for standard forty hour weeks. We then made overtime at time and a half over forty hours per seven day week. In the begining we routinly worked about 120hrs weekly and that went down slowly to about 90 hrs weekly. Most guys that went over would not stay if the hours went below that threshold. It was a very dangrous job and they wanted somthing to account for the risks they were taking. (We were running the MSR's with fuel tankers and Johhny Jihad cant resist a good explosion. Thirty 10000 gallon Tanker semi trucks filled with MOGAS, Deisle 2, or JP8, in a convoy with 3 humvees for an escort. You do the math.) Tax breaks were also an incentive but there is a major catch and that was you had to stay for 330 days during any twelve month period to qualify. The various states have different laws. For instance my state California required me to be out of country for 540 days to qualify for tax benifits. Like I said we earned every bit of what we got. A few of us didnt get to go home to spend the money. I was a convoy commander which ment that I made 3300 a month base pay and was in charge of 31 souls and 31units and about 300,000 gallons of fuel. The army got a bargain I say. I left because my tolerance for BS had worn away completely and I had become an utter and complete A*****E to those who were not on my crew especially supervisiors. I didnt like that I was becoming very bitter from all the stupidity. That was the main reason I left.

That said it was the best damn job I have ever had. I fortunate enough to serve with men amongst men, to followed and to have lead some of the craziest SOBs you ever met. I consider it an honor to have worked with them. If I had to do all over again, I would in a heartbeat. No regrets. Cheers to my fallen friends and a drink for them too:drink.
 
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it depends on the type work. I worked closely with the safety contractor when I was deployed to Iraq and I know he was making $$$$$. he didn't like the contractor's quarters so he was staying at the hotel at the Basrah airport at $3000 a month. My oldest son is a code writer for HVAC automation and he is leaving for Afghanistan in October and they are going to pay him $1000/day plus expenses.

Very interesting:shock:
 
To answer Liberal Avengers question more completly, We made about 3000 a month base pay as a driver for standard forty hour weeks. We then made overtime at time and a half over forty hours per seven day week. In the begining we routinly worked about 120hrs weekly and that went down slowly to about 90 hrs weekly. Most guys that went over would not stay if the hours went below that threshold. It was a very dangrous job and they wanted somthing to account for the risks they were taking. (We were running the MSR's with fuel tankers and Johhny Jihad cant resist a good explosion. Thirty 10000 gallon Tanker semi trucks filled with MOGAS, Deisle 2, or JP8, in a convoy with 3 humvees for an escort. You do the math.) Tax breaks were also an incentive but there is a major catch and that was you had to stay for 330 days during any twelve month period to qualify. The various states have different laws. For instance my state California required me to be out of country for 540 days to qualify for tax benifits. Like I said we earned every bit of what we got. A few of us didnt get to go home to spend the money. I was a convoy commander which ment that I made 3300 a month base pay and was in charge of 31 souls and 31units and about 300,000 gallons of fuel. The army got a bargain I say. I left because my tolerance for BS had worn away completely and I had become an utter and complete A*****E to those who were not on my crew especially supervisiors. I didnt like that I was becoming very bitter from all the stupidity. That was the main reason I left.

That said it was the best damn job I have ever had. I fortunate enough to serve with men amongst men, to followed and to have lead some of the craziest SOBs you ever met. I consider it an honor to have worked with them. If I had to do all over again, I would in a heartbeat. No regrets. Cheers to my fallen friends and a drink for them too:drink.

Hear, here, I drink to that. So you only made as much or less than a ubion plumber.
 
If I felt the cause was just - sure.

If not - no chance. I am not dying just to help further some scumbag politician's agenda.
 
Reading over the posts in this thread, it occurs to me that, were there another Vietnam sort of situation and people being drafted to go and kill Commies (or whatever the current devil is) we'd once again see widespread protests and perhaps a counter culture springing up once again. In fact, if Iraq and Afganistan had been fought by draftees, we could have seen a reenactment of the 1960's and early '70s.
 
Reading over the posts in this thread, it occurs to me that, were there another Vietnam sort of situation and people being drafted to go and kill Commies (or whatever the current devil is) we'd once again see widespread protests and perhaps a counter culture springing up once again. In fact, if Iraq and Afganistan had been fought by draftees, we could have seen a reenactment of the 1960's and early '70s.

I agree on the Iraq invasion. I don't think it would have happened if we still had the draft. As regards Osama bin Bankrupt us in Afghanistan, I think it would have been done with a more selective scenario, but We would have still pursued OBL and with an objective Intel instead of editorial politically motivated intel, we would also have attacked Pakistan.
 
I agree on the Iraq invasion. I don't think it would have happened if we still had the draft. As regards Osama bin Bankrupt us in Afghanistan, I think it would have been done with a more selective scenario, but We would have still pursued OBL and with an objective Intel instead of editorial politically motivated intel, we would also have attacked Pakistan.

Exactly, and our objective would not have been launching an ill advised and expensive nation building expedition, but simply killing or capturing Bin Laden and his cohorts and bringing them to justice.
 
The only way I would allow myself to be conscripted by the military is if US territory was invaded. Other than that, count me out.
 
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