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Originally Posted by cincymarsdad
My son's Marine recruiter was told he could not be deployed in combat because he was an only son. This actually bummed out my son. The recruiter was sent back to the Fleet prematurely for this among other things. This is crap.
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I dont know what the recruiter told him, but there used to be a rule that if you were the "sole surviving son", that is you had brothers who had died in combat, you couldn't be sent to a combat zone.