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Originally Posted by Undertoad
... Were you in fact choosing Army Photographer so you wouldn't be cannon fodder?
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I chose photography because it was something I already knew and had an interest in expanding on along the lines of military intelligence applications. I wouldn't have volunteered for consecutive airborne training if I had wanted to play it safe in a regular Signal Corps unit somewhere. Parachutist qualification pretty much consigned me to service in rapid deployment units and being among the first in. OTOH, I wasn't an infantry grunt more likely to be targeted by the grid square I was in. I'd be operating on the periphery; or, at low altitude in the air. Evidently, I preferred being rifle fodder to cannon fodder and to that extent I was choosey.