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Old 03-01-2008, 18:20 PM   #198 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SteaminDemon View Post
You make it sound like the reserves don't mean anything.
The depth of your ignorance is simply unfathomable.

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Indeed, joining the reserves came to be seen during Vietnam as a way to avoid conscription, fulfill the citizenship responsibility of military service, and avoid going to war. The generation now leading most American social institutions remembers the Vietnam role of the reserves as nonwar fighters—rather than the pre-Korea role of major mobilization base—as the norm for American reservist policy.
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