Reply #82: They never offered to fix it and I wouldn't have hung around anyway.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Which was just fine with me. A few months after I got out, they quit asking for volunteers to extend and started telling the poor sods that they were extended.

I got out in '65, as far as I know, there was no such thing as "Vietnam Era Vets" in '65 and the GI Bill paid for my college. The hospitalization wasn't service connected and I had to come up with the usual requirements for a VA loan.

I confess to not being familiar with the benefits as they are now. But, I will say, that however many I've received, it wasn't worth the 4 years I wasted. But, I was the dumb 17 year old who volunteered to do really stupid things for really stupid people.

The "You'll be sorryyy" I heard when I got off the PC at MCRD was an example of truer words never spoken.

Edited to say: I do vaguely recall signing a waiver about the ear. Hell, I would have signed anything other than re-enlistment or extension papers.