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Originally Posted by Seaver
Poor remainder of the Armed Services, takes a great deal more courage to serve your obligations in the face of adversity and danger.
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How does it take more courage to go with the flow? As was made clear by the what the soldier witnessed, the remainder of the forces aren't to brave raiding homes of innocent people. I've had similar stories from friends of mine who are currently serving. "I'm constantly ordered to raid, but we never find anything."
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Originally Posted by Seaver
Why is it that every one of these stories is the "But the recruiter told me...!"? No where in the contract he signed did it say he'd never be deployed. Not one recruiter has ever said (and I've talked to at least a dozen since pre-9/11) to me that I'd never be deployed. That's what the military does, they fight wars. You only need to look at the Clinton Administration and see how many deployments they had, and they had plenty (LONG before Bush or 9/11).
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The thing is, no one is there to explain to these kids that recruiters are allowed to lie, and do so to fill a quota. I'm sure that you know recruiters will stretch the truth and on occasion outright lie quite often, and that behavior is not monitored.
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Originally Posted by Seaver
I thank him for the time he did serve, but I have no sympathy for an abandoner. If he was so troubled with what happened, with no evidence given it actually did occur, he should have reported it immediately. Instead he goes to the comfort of home, and decides he does not want to go back.
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What do you say?
Infantry soldier: "None of the places we raided in the past 6 months had evidence of insurgency or terrorism. I, in the 200+ raids I've done, have never found a weapon of any kind, bomb making tools or parts or fuel, or even a knife. Can we stop scaring the shit out of these poor people?"
Commanding Officer: "No."
Infantry soldier: "What evidence do we have that these people are a danger?"
Commanding Officer: "None."
Infantry soldier: *leaves, never to terrorize an Iraqi again*