I Would Throw My Gun Down

[stepnw1f]

If I was in the military right now... I would throw my gun down in dissent. Lock me up!

[Poppyseedman]

1. Lock me up!

Believe me, they would.

Military court isn't the same as civil court.

You would be in for a long time

[MADem]

2. Not if you were over there, you might not

You would be thinking about staying alive for another day. You would be loyal to those in your unit, you watch my back, I watch yours. You might think the war was wrong, or you might not think about it at all, because thinking too much can get you killed. You would count the days until you were getting on the Freedom Bird...you might even have a dorky color-by-numbers "Advent Calendar" taped to your locker, and every night you would fill in a block, and when the whole picture was colored in, you'd be on your way home.

When you got home, you might take off and not go back--but if you were there, you would hunker down and try to survive, I suspect...

[oregonindy]

3. what about just not leaving the barracks?

[Mountainman]

4. You would be ordered to fight and if you disobey the order you would be

looked up and face a court martial. In WWII Private Slovak did just that and was executed.

[stepnw1f]

5. Then I Die for My Country

I die for truth, and I leave my soul intact.

[oregonindy]

6. could they really courtmartial the entire army or even 50% of it?

[Jim__]

7. I've heard that at the end of the Vietnam War, troops refused to go

on patrol. They would defend their base from attack; but that's about it; they'd refuse direct orders to go out on patrol.