The Vietnam War - Page 12

**DTravel** · April 11th, 2014, 04:41 AM

The US military has a lot of non-US citizens in it. Enough that a couple years ago someone in Congress finally introduced a bill to grant citizenship to any US military veteran with an honorable discharge after some period, five years I think.

**SanteeFats** · May 4th, 2014, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by scoundrel

One would have thought that the whole point was to bomb the supply lines. If you don't, what have you gained by violating the neutrality of Cambodia and Laos? But it should also be mentioned that neutrals have obligations as well as rights, and Cambodia and Laos should not have permitted their territory to be used by the Viet Cong and the NVA if they wanted to stay out of the Vietnam War.

Ahhh, politicians yes

:confus ed:

**trailmaster** · January 29th, 2016, 10:54 PM

I am not a student of war history so this post is about my own experience with the Vietnam War. In 1965 when America first started to send our military forces into Vietnam I was still in high school.Three years later I turned 18 and was drafted. I was given various medical tests and some strange written test. The written test was mostly about having me try to identify different kinds of machinery. I found out later that this test was to determine if I had experience in doing repairs on machinery ( mostly cars ). If I scored high on that test I would probably have been sent to the military motor pool to work on maintaining
military cars, jeeps, trucks, tanks and other mobile military equipment. The doctors who administered the various medical tests found somethings wrong with me. They said I had a heart murmur ( which is actually quite common in teenagers ), but in my case they said that the sounds they heard in my heart might require surgery in the near future. They were correct, because when I turned 24 I required Thoracic surgery for a congenital condition called Patent Ductus Arteriosis. I also had a lower than normal arch in my right foot, and that same foot was slightly crooked, so I was denied service in the military. Years later my right foot developed an inflammatory condition called Plantar Fasciitis which causes such extreme pain I could not walk until I after seeing a Podiatrist acquired Orthotics. Luckily orthotics had not been invented during the war years, or I might have been drafted after all.

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trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,933 Thanks: 1,329,434 Thanked 707,596 Times in 60,107 Posts	I am not a student of war history so this post is about my own experience with the Vietnam War. In 1965 when America first started to send our military forces into Vietnam I was still in high school.Three years later I turned 18 and was drafted. I was given various medical tests and some strange written test. The written test was mostly about having me try to identify different kinds of machinery. I found out later that this test was to determine if I had experience in doing repairs on machinery ( mostly cars ). If I scored high on that test I would probably have been sent to the military motor pool to work on maintaining military cars, jeeps, trucks, tanks and other mobile military equipment. The doctors who administered the various medical tests found somethings wrong with me. They said I had a heart murmur ( which is actually quite common in teenagers ), but in my case they said that the sounds they heard in my heart might require surgery in the near future. They were correct, because when I turned 24 I required Thoracic surgery for a congenital condition called Patent Ductus Arteriosis. I also had a lower than normal arch in my right foot, and that same foot was slightly crooked, so I was denied service in the military. Years later my right foot developed an inflammatory condition called Plantar Fasciitis which causes such extreme pain I could not walk until I after seeing a Podiatrist acquired Orthotics. Luckily orthotics had not been invented during the war years, or I might have been drafted after all.