"IF" a war started in the united states and you were not inlisted in the army would you still help fight.
336019
it would depend on the circumstances of the war
1020914
No, you don't have to die to serve your country. If you are in the US Army it does not matter if you on the front lines or in some supporting effort, as long as you making an effort to do a good job, you are serving your country.
629325
Isn't going to war and protecting our country why you join the military?  Or are you one of those who just want the money for college?  If you are you are pathetic.
490754
I don't know, but I want to fight in a war when I go in to the army. I mean, come on, why else would people go? You know, besides money and training.
695783
To US troops: If the US politicans had stayed out of this war from the beginning you'd have already won the war and been walking in victory parades back home.\n\nTo the Iraqi people: If the US politicans had stayed out of this war from beginning you'd all be safe right now & 600,000 of you wouldn't be dead.
468404
Of course we would have. President Roosevelt had started the Nation's first peacetime draft in history, starting in 1939, before the war began. Before the draft, the US had around 100,000 active duty soldiers. A year after the draft, we had over a million. By the end of the war we had over twelve million soldiers. \n   Roosevelt's massive pre-war military expansion was a precautionary measure; he could smell a storm coming, and we needed to be ready\n   Consider how world war one played out. We stayed on the sidelines and watched the Europeans kick the snot out of each other for three years. But we were not neutral. From the beginning of the war, we wanted Great Britain to win, because we knew our seas would not protect us from the world's turmoil much longer, and we needed good friends on the other side of the ocean. So even though we didn't fight until 1917, we kept sending food and war material to the Allies, which kept them in the game against Germany.  Germany realised that as long as we kept supplying their enemy, they could not win. So the Germans, out of necessity, started sinking our ships, and then, finally, we went to war, after the Germans were exhausted from endless trench warfare.  This strategy was preffered by the US, as it made winning much eaisier and less painful.\n   Back to WWII....\n   By the autumn of 1941, history was repeating itself, as we had hoped. The Germans were locked into an ugly, brutal stalemate (in USSR), that was taking a heavy toll on their military (and the USSR). We would have been content to let that play out another year or two, but inevitably, when Germany was on the ropes, we would have mobilized our Armed Forces to deliver the coup de gras.\n   When Japan launched a major strike on US soil, that did not change our ultimate decision, it just brought us into the war earlier than we had planned on. Winston Churchill cheered when we got hit, because he knew we'd have to start helping then.
665536
Your right. You should probably take up arms against the US army to stop them.  I think after everything thats happended you are morally obligated to take a stand. Arent you?
563655
Why would it matter? You join the military to serve where they place you. That is the whole point; to serve your country wherever they need you.
956125
I'm really not sure, i would want to fight for my birth country yet i dont know anything about it. I dont know whether they're in the right or wrong and who i will be fighting alongside. If i fight for the country i have lived in most of my life, then i would have a patriotic feel.
745179
no, cos you would kill more of your own then the enemy, i mean look at the u.s military they killed more allied troops in friendly fire incidents then the enemy did, proof that short sighted ppl are a danger to your own side.
888526
If you don't know what you're fighting for then you should go AWOL...
720684
I have served in the Marine Corps through both afghanistan and iraq. I will tell you honestly, We had to go there. We had to fight. There are two points that the military is instructed to carry out 1)Defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. 2) Defend those who cannot defend themselves. Now if your asking if we should still be there, I believe we should be there as an advisor role only. We should no longer be patroling those roads and streets that I had to when the wars originally started. Its been over 3 years since the start of Iraq and almost 5 since the start of Afghanistan. We should be pulling out faster and letting them decide how they wish to live just as we did after the revolutionary war.
323050
I think that serving your country is an admirable thing to do.\n\nIf you're attending college and are in training, you will not be sent to war.  You're training.  Unless something terribly dire happened and a draft had to be reinstated, you won't be sent to war if you're in college ROTC.
416940
Nope.  I personally served alongside some Marines that weren't US citizens.  In several cases it expedited their naturalization process.  In all cases I respected that these men weren't citizens but loved America enough to serve.  I'd be first in line to say that these men should be citizens.
880261
Great question! I think we would have a whole lot less wars if the people making the decisions to fight, or their kids who weren't allowed to be in hiding in the National Guard, were forced to be in the fighting.  Therefore, I have to answer that they should be in the fight.  If you send someone in to die you should be willing to die too.
1121515
I am totally against the war, however, people who join our military go in knowing that even if it's not necessarily a war they would back, they have comitted to doing their job.  I might also say that no matter what war or why - they have my absolute respect for being a part of a bigger picture that may cause them great harm or even death.  I salute all of them.  Bush, however, can kiss my flabbly butt.
934205
If you served in the military, you are a veteran. Not your fault there was no war while you were in. Be proud of yourself. I'm proud of you.