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To: unclewest who wrote (97521)	1/29/2005 12:56:46 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 793731

.>>How much money would it take for you to advise your two sons that front-line combat to fight our enemies is honorable and necessary and they must volunteer? >>> What are their chances of getting assigned to the front lines in ground combat. Very slim, and where is the front line, and who can guess what a specialty a volunteer will be assigned to do.? Your sons in service will not become drug addicts or live under a freeway overpass without medical care and they will qualify for college and insurance.And have companionship. Fifty electric power linesmen get killed each year. And they may do the same job for 20 years. Would you worry about them each day, or tell tehem to get a dreary desk job. ? The MSM is doing the US a great dis-service by concentrating on the combat casualties without putting them in proportion to other means of dying which people do on daily basis. In any occupation, people will screw up, cars, aircraft and subs will crash, wildfires will burn, and servicemen will die even if there is no combat. Why did the MSM not keep daily track of servicemens deaths when there was no war? Is it only a war that kills? War is not the best time to recruit people who are trying to play life safe, but that is counteracted by those who seek excitement and adventure and a sense of duty. Payment offered will have to be an experiment, if it becomes too high (in governmental eyes) then a draft will loom but the time is not yet. Sig

To: unclewest who wrote (97521)	1/29/2005 12:56:47 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 793731

.>>How much money would it take for you to advise your two sons that front-line combat to fight our enemies is honorable and necessary and they must volunteer? >>> What are their chances of getting assigned to the front lines in ground combat. Very slim, and where is the front line, and who can guess what a specialty a volunteer will be assigned to do.? Your sons in service will not become drug addicts or live under a freeway overpass without medical care and they will qualify for college and insurance.And have companionship. Fifty electric power linesmen get killed each year. And they may do the same job for 20 years. Would you worry about them each day, or tell tehem to get a dreary desk job. ? The MSM is doing the US a great dis-service by concentrating on the combat casualties without putting them in proportion to other means of dying which people do on daily basis. In any occupation, people will screw up, cars, aircraft and subs will crash, wildfires will burn, and servicemen will die even if there is no combat. Why did the MSM not keep daily track of servicemens deaths when there was no war? Is it only a war that kills? War is not the best time to recruit people who are trying to play life safe, but that is counteracted by those who seek excitement and adventure and a sense of duty. Payment offered will have to be an experiment, if it becomes too high (in governmental eyes) then a draft will loom but the time is not yet. Sig

To: unclewest who wrote (97521)	1/29/2005 1:55:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793731

My kids are fat, sloppy, out of shape, and have IQs over 150. On the plus side, they are good at math and computer programming. I doubt any sane branch of the military is going to put them into the kind of job you are talking about. I do take your point. It's not fair for some kids to avoid combat because their daddy and mama are rich and have strings to pull. But if the draft were reinstated, my kids still wouldn't be put into the infantry, unless they wanted it. Their daddy and mama are rich and have strings to pull. My point is that some people are better suited for warfare than others, and they should be well compensated. My guess is that these are the same types who become cops, pilot airplanes, and jump into fires. In their spare time, they snowboard, sky dive, deep sea dive, run marathons and orienteer. I know plenty of guys who love to hunt, too. Some who even ride to hounds. It takes all kinds to make a world.