It.
Four times three times
when I came home I got I got no I had to go to the big hospital
and three times I had record piles of records to go down to Fort Dix with my
Congress in the Army he told me just because you can't go to be might depend on the
right to go. She goes but civilian rules
and laws are just the normal laws you still have to learn to live with it.
You know because you've been here for good.
You got to stay here you can you get out
and I just you know it took me a speedy tonight New York next week
and I don't mean. Remember ma'am.
And you know it's a man's really man executioners nice a really nice suit he was
interesting. He's like two thousand sex.
So the
fact that.
When you left me around your mother
or now under my every time you bring a lawyer know very thing out.
I'll tell you
the next day you may get a
yes a day a
day and age
and say thanks and say he said hey by.
I grew up on the south side of the suburbs one time from a serious disconnect take
it.
So a group of us decided to drop out was great for a couple months just tying a loose
shooting pool. You know to have to tell some stories and while man stepped in
and I was out looking for a job there was nothing there for me.
There are few skilled jobs other never any training for but I had to keep looking.
Did you drown. Yes Yes How about a month later
when I got my induction is a really good to me.
I'm turn up anything myself and this was everything I needed money job training
and all day so I might all hold
you to the day I met
when you know even if you don't like
that you're all I got.
So I know what you're crap you're right. Yes.
You're right back now sir.
But you may not say yes God what did you have to drop the fuck
out of here by radical without me as useless
what I write I hope I am useless get in there
and make a phone call first God Get up get out before I just got
a call everybody.
Want me back
in and you know and a burning sensation in the lake. You know for me.
The point you know learning a new again.
Don't worry and then and then you got your
and fifty nine weeks you can take out a new revenue on your skin in your face
and maybe a new protective mask
but don't take your perspective I mean you've got a shadow of a
deadly mustard gas in your face and you take your guy out there but you're right.
Yeah that's right.
You do day you're up next to me like my mind is just one blank I'm
going and I don't care. I don't care what happens.
I'm not
good afternoon started Berman you big brother they were your bird buddies Abana
training. I remember one bang on the bed at court.
We only teach the art of killing
and that's all what I like to see a little man get out here
in the shop. That's all it takes to start out big yard.
It's how good aggressive you are you do get out get him out on I want to talk I
want you on your train you say
you are right I do all my strength when you walk down the aisle your good.
Basic Training has a purpose.
It breaks the skin into a ready to do everything the military wants us to do
without any question as swallowing the shit and taking a penny.
Rasmussen's call this a day and he wrong questions step out of their line
and if so what's in the stockade. We have no say in what.
And there's only one way to do things the way you Tony.
So you know Tony's basic training program is pretty crappy.
And isolates That's keeps us exhausted all the time keeps the raspiness
and keeps us from talking to each other about the political purpose of army.
It's the only way the military to ensure and do their work without question.
Beneath those says we only need now and I'll do it.
CHRIS of their goal Vermund be fended for an admission from the north.
But the Subby enemies don't fight.
Except maybe if the sun is shining and there are be fifty things behind him
but nah no one wants to be near said you know if you need to in a firefight.
They've got the best American Weebles
but they're so sloppy they might as well be and you can bomb for the Viet Cong.
The Vietcong fight the fight hard
and they file a died because they've got a lot more than good
and they can write this because they have to
find their dad because you know why you're fighting because you gave even.
The Viet Cong are fighting for the right of the Vietnamese people to wrong their
own country.
This was no different from the others. It's a money order.
Nobody believes that America feels a responsibility to. I don't buy that.
That's now where the government spends three billion dollars a year just for bombs
and shells no buildings.
Takin sixteen rifles. Now who know how one to right from the chance
when it gets a little dirty or when it heats up.
I know a lot of guys who do there's a way
and used A K forty seven the brass said they were satisfied with the M.
Sixteen what they meant was.
Called and somebody else is making a pile of money and the brass doesn't like boat.
Well. I saw guys die with sand and sixteen's and they weren't satisfied.
About one hundred villagers serving now
and each of them cost people around a million bucks every time I dropped a full
load. There's another sixty grand.
Come to see to it
that the brass sells all those big bombers to play with the news
that our taxes in our bread and butter flying around up there
and I can't exactly for the pay for them myself as I make two hundred thirty bucks
a month
when fifty five are combat pay the lucky five a day extra for getting shot at you
know I'm not the one who's doing this for money.
The odds are the young ones have got it made when they get back.
They've got a sub jobs waiting for them as managers
and executives in the same businesses that are cleaning up from the war.
Were the army not just service were.
I went to bed to face trial in the battlefield where the press brings up the rear.
We're the ones who die in the rice paddies.
We're the ones who get nothing out of this war.
Maybe some trouble in our guts.
Vietnam is only a small part of the world market
when if we finally get out of here.
The really big variable are going to come in
and make up our butts off new markets even the roles in our products we built on
the cheap labor in Asian cities but we go back to the states
and the world.
What kind of job are we've been trained for a cop.
Throughout our history there have been occasions
when local authorities could not maintain law and order
but troops had to be called in.
I've got no business in Vietnam.
Now got even less business margin in the city say they want me to move against
people who are learning how the society works to keep them down.
When the old revolutionary brothers begin to demand control over their communities.
The man wants me to protective bullshit in relevant institutions people are waking
up to the fact that this is a racist society
that it doesn't do anything for the people
that it doesn't listen to what they have to say people are beginning to understand
that they have a right to expect their government to serve.
And when they discover that it doesn't.
They also have a right to do something about it and
when they start doing something about it.
The ship gets here early for the count and that's
when they call us in to beat to put our brothers down
men or women the power in this country isolated from the people they use
and to get what they want. Which is money. Those are the men whose business is.
We supposed to protect when the people come to burn
and nobody is about to ask us whether we think we should be there.
We're all it in the news like a club to keep the people quite fast and win
or lose hands or swing in that club the same big seriously you know.
I mean open up markets around the world.
These are the guys from the caption sold people are waking up to the fact they're
going to have more people wake up man and more
and look bigger and bigger clothes until a long haul truck
and country become one on can
we all have a choice to make the guys who I was sent to numb me three
and a half million to support their resistance whether people are struggling
against American exploitation of the same guys who create the misery here at home
but they are in the service
and not the choice of the same we said the guy silently
or recognize him as our children
and responsible for the oppressive conditions they create these men will do
anything to stay in power.
That's why they try to keep us divided white from black men from women civilians
from soldiers.
When our bravest people stand up today they use a phony call it's a right last
isolate them they call them criminals and they bury in the nest arcade
and present the whole legal system to use like the U.C. M.J.
To keep everybody in line
but the army's Uniform Code of Military Justice which is nothing more than legal
blackmail wasn't enough to stop all the two hundred fifty thousand G.I.'s from
going a war last year.
Thank God we can pretend we don't have a choice
but will end up doing God duty over our brothers on a path like more
and more of a sustained together against the breast.
We're not
at the Presidio I played it Jackson said Gregg may take the risk.
So
that we had the support of a lot of people outside the so thousands of people came
in to support the politics thirty eight guys with machine to keep taking shit from
the on the thirty eight so
that people are always going to get fucked over Zong as they let it happen.
So they start out for all of this against the grain.
And thousands of people across the country stood up with an international campaign
by the time this demonstration hundred the G.I.'s had already been released from
the dick sucking.
The brass is uptight it panicked at the facility a child.
Saying it's a fifteen to sixteen year census pitchy I stood together with the
support of the civilian review the force.
The army to back down the gentleman strongly on me is afraid I'm going to see it
trying to suppress our news when it's looking at the C.M.G.
To put the papers off
and it's up to people finding
out how all the different struggles are actually the same fight against the same
man like in line.
People are fighting in a community for miners an Appalachian steel auto
and transportation workers in every big city a strike against their bosses
and even against their own unions college students are fighting against the army
and big business who control a University High School students are fed up with
being humiliated and held for four years. The G.I. Fight is part of the struggle.