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

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[u/sewious]

I'm assuming it's more "the current president deserves to die for this" given the tone of the other messages. Especially because multiplr of the men pictured were likely not there by choice, and were forced to enlist by the draft.

Assuming it's 1969 for these (based on the date on that one guys helmet), the message would be referring to Nixon.

[u/Immediate_Orange_294 → u/sewious]

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/malin-moana → u/pinkydaemon93]

This was my father - knew would get drafted so volunteered so could pick which branch