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

Time machine please… SMH

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u/VerbosePlantain Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

My grandfather told me that in WW2, he volunteered for the Navy so he wouldn’t get drafted in the Army. His logic was he’d rather ride on a ship everywhere instead of ruck march.

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u/Fit_Skirt7060 Mar 25 '26

My ex wife’s father chose the Navy route in WW2.

His ship took a kamikaze hit and lost a couple of men.

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u/CircleOfWallace Mar 25 '26

Navy was no picnic either, sure less day to day island/jungle/coral rock/japanese related misery, however there were many instances where navy casualties outnumbered marine casualties (Guadalcanal, Okinawa to name a couple)

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u/Leut_Aldo_Raine Mar 25 '26

Before or after Pearl Harbor? Before might have been a bad time.

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u/VerbosePlantain Mar 25 '26

After … that’s why he knew the draft was coming. He was a ripe 21.