I have to go with the majority here, it would have to feel like actual 'self defense'

ID have to see that the risk of harm happening to my loved onesif I Didnt go was equal to or greater than if I stayed

otherwise, Im not going anywhere

Chloe I sense you are itching to pull the trigger :-)
JERMANICUS..do you think courage can be learned?
Bravalady, deskjob :-)
john, we are free to trust whom we like.
Ghostrider, if they let you take your bike?
Harmony, what an excellent scale by which to measure.

It seems the compensation part is much less
important than..the cause and the need.

Nope...they are only gonna kick me out once.

I know alot of good military personnel....I also know alot that could't outwit a wiffle ball bat.

I would definitely go redneck militia if it was on my countries soil. I am a firm believer in guerilla warfare. I am pretty well versed in improvised demolitions and weapons.

America has the best armed peasants in the world....Texas Rednecks...Hill Billys...Thug @$$ed Gangstas...Texican Mafias.....our civilians got more guns than most armies in the world. Plus, we got more nukes in my hometown than any other place on earth.

Makes me think of "Red Dawn"....getting invaded by Cuba...Ha!

LOL..........

Hell NO....
Let Obama go!!!!

Wolverines!

Already paid that bill, and got the receipts to prove it.

They had me once. They wouldn't want me back.

Where the hell were the rednecks and hillbilly's?

Seriously! Go all "Deliverance" on them!!!!!

We were busy guardin our......

Moonshine!!!!

Aint no f'n commies gettin our lightnin......

Word!

remind me to stay on her GOOD SIDE

I signed up with selective service and the draft was over when I went in. I got the two honorary DD214s and was glad to be free, again.

Just so long as you aren't insinuating that refusal to do so is a lack of courage.

Who cares? If they ain't holding a gun in hand and running into bullets...it is an easy and hollow opinion.

Everyone is brave, majestic and bad@$$ed in theory.

I ain't that brave.

Yes! Yes! Yes!! I would definitely go, PROVIDED:

1. I would be given a personal guarantee by the President that I wouldn't get hurt, mutilated, killed, tortured, maimed, or called names by the enemy, by the allies or by the generality (or admirality if in the navy);

2. I wouldn't need to carry anything over 10 lbs in gross weight.

3. The good-bye love-making and all night sex and drug orgy would be with full and willing participation by me and by Sarah Palin. (Ghhod I wanna know that biiiitch in the Biblical sense. Shhheee is sooooo hottt hottt hottt.)

4. I would be granted four hours a day to live out my Mingle2 addiction.

5. I would be declared a National War Hero Monument after coming home.

6. Guarantee that we would win. I hate to lose!

7. The coming home victory party would line up at least seven Hills Angels, for me and for my own personal private enjoyment, coz they would be at just the right age for me, and I bet they're still juicy even after all these years.

8. If I die during the victory party, I want the life insurance to be paid to the Angel who did me to death, and I DEMAND a life-long war hero monument named after me. And NOT one tucked away somewhere in the Arizona desert, but somewhere more visible, like straddling two of the inside lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike.

Hell yeah!

Oh ... the toys!!!!

Been there and back (Nam). If they called for every man like that I would be compelled to save my country. With or without the stratospheric salary. As long as I can bring my rubber ducky.

They could send me to the hot spots so I could help as much as possible before I succumbed in a week or two with my disease and no treatment. If it was my fate I would embrace it.

No!!! Goes against everything I believe in. If we were being invaded on our shores then I might give it some thought.

Depends on the war.

If I could slip into a few places and knock off some of the really evil bastards of the world and not just make the situation worse by createing a power grab sure I think I would do it as one last hurrah.

Would be much preferable to me than say my son or grandsons or some other young person I think might be able to contribute a heck of a lot more than I can now. Afterall who would suspect and old broad like me. Be like shootting watermellons in a basket.

I don't think I would feel the slightest remores for killing some of the people who help sex traffic children, starve refugees, threaten to blow up the world in a nuclear incinerator to name a few..

I am not afraid of dying but I sure don't look forward to getting old and frail enough I can't take care of myself.

Been there, done that 1973-1975. USMC.