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Posted on 4/23/18 at 12:13 am to CarrolltonTiger
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The story on how he stretched a 12 month tour into around three years would be interesting.
My mother's cousin did a tour with the Army, volunteered for a second tour, then went back a third time as a merchant marine. He came home with a Vietnamese wife and a crippling case of PTSD. He became an outlaw biker and did a stretch in prison on an explosives charge. He found a measure of tranquility about the time he qualified for social security.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 6:38 am to CarrolltonTiger
I read once that during that time there was kind of an unwritten rule that if one son was overseas they would try not to send the others, so guys would volunteer for additional tours to keep their litttle brothers from being drafted. Who knows, maybe that guy did and got to go back as an mp on airport duty if he was lucky.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:50 am to CarrolltonTiger
He re-upped. Probably not a typical grunt. More than likely special forces of some kind, or LRRP, if I had to guess.
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