Oldtanker, you said "wonder if other types of forums, not dealing with AG related things can boast the same numbers?"
I think 'farm' younguns made up the one highest percentages, enlistment wise, in about every war we've been in. A lot of farm kids from the MidWest and those from the South didn't have college deferments during the Draft period of Viet Nam. I enlisted in the Air Force in '65 on the advice of my father. My family's service history is too involved to post here. My father served with the 31st Infantry (Dixie Division) during WWll. He was a rifle squad leader with the 124th Regt. Combat Team, at the age of 21. They were in the Pacific theater in '44-'45. Most of my uncles and my father were career soldiers. I think they stayed in the service because it beat trying to go back to cotton farming and our little hometown had no industry to speak of.
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