I knew and worked with a lot of airforce, and navy vets, and viet nam was the reason they enlisted. It wasn't draft dodging, or learning to speak canadian. It was the right and smart thing to do. One of my cousins opted for the coast guard, He went to nam, said it was betterthan alaska, where he went first. The feelings in my age group were enlist and get it over, then you hope you can plan a life. At that time, after korea, if you were 1A you were going to go somewhere, no doubt about it.