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Remember those TV shows or movies when a parent says to his son "I'll send you off to military school if you don't straighten up!" Males were scared of the military, most could've cared less about the war (although there were a fair share of sincerely scared men who dreaded going to the Nam). Boot camp is what scared most fellas, they saw too many movies and it influenced them; however to be fair, boot camp was no picnic especially in the Army or Marines. The Navy was third on the "fear scale" and the best of the best was the Air Force and Coast Guard...but you see there were LINES of men waiting to get into those branches. The absolute toughest outfits to join (before ya got drafted by the army or the corps (read marines) was the Coast Guard and the Air Force (plus the Army/Air Force National Guards, they too had a waiting list to enlist). The Navy was the 3rd hardest to join, again due to openings. And then the bottom of the barrel was the army...men would rather take their chances in the army rather than the marines (boot camp wise).
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