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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (93169)	9/23/2001 10:58:57 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Charles Tutt, Military retirement is based on years of service. 20 years for reserve officers, and 30 years for Regular Army officers. I'll let you do the math. Viet Nam era soldiers in the service would be few and far between. Funny I don't recall a lot of career minded enlistments to avoid the draft. I do recall a lot of college enrollments and relocations to Canada to avoid the draft. At any rate, Viet Nam has little to do with the current situation. It is rather ancient history to most at this point. The military establishment's feeling about the Clinton administration was based on military policy changes. History will be the final judge on the correctness of those changes. The changes did prompt many more young individuals then normal to seek employment in the civilian work force. The normal view of the military is an infantryman who has been taught to shoot a weapon in a short period of time. Most military are highly trained to support and operate sophisticated equipment. The education, training and experience is expensive and takes time. Even the lowly infantryman is more sophisticated then in the past. NW

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (93169)	9/24/2001 10:24:10 AM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Not to be petty, but there really is not any way to say this without being petty. However, I have many friends who were in the military that would still be in there if they had any respect for our last president. It is, unfortunately, very true. These are not "old" people, either. These are age range from 30 - 38. Some were active, left the military at the end of service, then were on IRR. As soon as they could, they dropped that. Others were National Guard and reservists who ended their service ASAP. However, to be fair, I DON'T think they represented a majority of active military personnel.