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Subject: Will The US Army Ever Have To Actively Recruit In Foreign Countries?
CJH    2/26/2005 3:24:14 PM
Are we Americans gradually becoming a people who just can't see themselves being in the military? I have a copy of Bill Mauldin's "Up Front" which is a commentary plus a collection of cartoons about two WWII soldiers, Willy and Joe. In one cartoon, one of the two has a bar of soap and a towel and is looking down on the other who is sitting in a water filled mud hole taking a bath. The first one says to the one in the mud hole something like "No thanks, I am looking for mud what ain't been used". Are we still psychologically capable of enduring even what WWII dog faces did?
 
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Patton       11/22/2010 11:33:05 AM
Good question...
I wonder about that sometimes myself.  But I think public aversion to casualities is the driving force here.  It probably goes back to Vietnam.  So what the Army has done is devised ways and means to win with a minimum amount of loss.
 
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