From: "Rude Dog"


I'm not certain who is worse. A person who joins the Air National Guard to
avoid going to Vietnam or a person who goes to Vietnam to obtain political
status and power.

Go look at the Wall. There's over a thousand names of Guardsmen and reservists
engraved there.

If you want to say joining the Guard would reduce the risk of going this is
true, but so was volunteering and selecting the right MOS. Even being drafted
was no sure ticket to Viet Nam. Some draftees never even left the states, many
went elsewhere.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired