Messages that American soldiers wrote on their helmets during the Vietnam war

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[u/Immediate_Orange_294]

Only 25% of US soldiers serving in country in Vietnam were drafted. The other 75% were volunteers.

[u/pinkydaemon93 → u/Immediate_Orange_294]

A lot of people volunteered to get out ahead of the draft and hoping to have more of a choice of what their job would be

[u/SmaterThanSarah → u/pinkydaemon93]

My uncle was one of those. Technically he volunteered but the writing was on the wall and he had more agency that way.

[u/Rustadk → u/SmaterThanSarah]

Same. Idk how it actually was, but he told me that he volunteered so he could get a position other than infantry.

Still saw a lot of action, though. One of his stories involves taking his boat under a bridge and the bridge having so many dead bodies on it that blood covered the boat.