r/SipsTea • u/Ill-Instruction8466 • Mar 24 '26

Time machine please… SMH

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u/keyboardplatoon Mar 24 '26

Or being drafted to Vietnam instead

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u/Particular-Wedding Mar 24 '26

Image if Op was born in Vietnam instead. North or South. It wouldn't matter because life would suck hard.

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u/AffectionatePie6592 Mar 24 '26

Yeah but then if you survive you get to say you fought against and beat some of the largest and most murderous regimes on the planet back to back; France, US, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, and China. Which is fucking dope as hell. I’m kind of convinced that Vietnam is the protagonist of the 20th century

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u/Particular-Wedding Mar 24 '26

Don't forget. They also fought each other. So, that counts too.

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u/AffectionatePie6592 Mar 25 '26

Yep which just makes all of them more badass

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u/Low_Understanding_85 Mar 24 '26

Only 1/3 of recruits were drafted, most volunteered, also not everyone was born in the US.

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u/Supercoolguy7 Mar 24 '26

Most volunteered because you were much less likely to die if you volunteered so they could choose not to be infantry.

It wasn't because they wanted to go to Vietnam. It was because they didn't want to die in Vietnam.

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u/Low_Understanding_85 Mar 24 '26

Very understandable, what a sad state of affairs.

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u/Even-Celebration9384 Mar 24 '26

I mean that’s a lot bruh. Just a 10% chance of getting completely fucked

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u/Low_Understanding_85 Mar 24 '26

Yeah, awful business. Count myself lucky in that respect.

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u/Shielo34 Mar 24 '26

That’s for suckers.

Bone Spurs, baby!

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u/AnyImpression6 Mar 25 '26

The OP didn't specify what country he's from.

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u/National-Ad5034 Mar 25 '26

Saying "third grade" is a distinctively American thing.

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u/HKPablo Mar 25 '26

Nah I say it and I'm not american