America - Love It or Leave It.

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Say you were playing a multiplayer video game with some friends and were on the last boss. You all agreed to, by some tech, bring the boss down to 1hp and then all hit him at once, to share the glory. But one of your friends is a d*** and breaks the plan and delivers the final blow before anyone else can so he can brag about how he beat the boss all on his own.

That's pretty much what the soviet union did in WWII.

"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair."--- H.L. Mencken

Depends on the type of radical. Some of them really do just hate their country and want to turn it into something quite sinister.

No.

1- Stalin wanted the Western Allies to open a second front sooner than they did. Nothing was done until 1944, unless you count the useless and murderous bombing campaigns, undecisive antisubmarine warfare and a Mediterranean front which, propaganda aside, drew almost no real attention.
2- 80% (or thereabouts) of German troops were on the Eastern Front.
3- The decisive event in 1944 is Bagration, not Overlord.

There is a reason behind military training and it is called discipline and to be able to follow orders in a combat situation, etc.

I admire anyone willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country and I am proud to be from a country where the military is an all volunteer force.

As the famous saying goes:
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

I plan to leave it.

one way flight to Japan?

Uh, it's looking that way. Surprisingly, if you don't wanna live in a city, Japan is dirt cheap for housing. My original plan was to live in a Northern state here, like Vermont or Maine, and I might own some property here just to have a place to crash (probably an offgrid trailer on some land) if I have to come back here, but Japan has the same type of housing prices in it's cold Northern areas in the mountains with no people as USA does in it's same areas, so I figure it'd be a good idea. Also, there's some incentive by local prefectures to get people moving back into depopulated areas, due to everyone moving to illustrious Tokyo, so it's even possible I could live in Japan for free if I agree to stay in said depopulated area.

Then I can own a Nissan Skyline and a bunch of airsoft guns and eat a bunch of fish.

Even better, you won't need any lights! It's so radioactive that the Cherenkov radiation will give everything a nice, warm blue glow. [/sarcasm]

I have heard this quote. I agree to a certain extent. I've been told by the airlines that one must put an oxygen mask on himself before putting it on someone else. If one can't do for oneself or does not know how, how can one do for anyone else including his country?

I would have to ask this of you Fnord. How were you able to keep up in basic training? How did you keep up with the military drills they had you do? Didn't you have to coordinate yourself with the rest of your squad? How were you able to coordinate yourself and do everything at the same time as the rest of your squad? If you were out of sync were you screamed at and how did you deal with that? Did you ever miss orders or only understood part of your commanding officer's orders because of some sound or chaos? Did this occur frequently? How did you overcome it? Did you ever have meltdowns in the military? Were you ever disciplined by your superiors for various things and offenses? What was your final rank and position when you got out? What were you discharged for? Did you lead a squad on your own? How were you able to pull that off? Were you ever in a high combat situation? How did you manage yourself in a high combat and high stress situation? How were you able to make instant and quick decisions that involved your life and your squad's lives? If the situation became intense how did you distinguish friendly fire from enemy fire? How were you able to conduct yourself as a soldier of the military without your aspiness getting in the way? Either you are being dishonest about some things, you're higher functioning in a number of ways than some of those on here, you have an angle someway, somehow.

What did you do Fnord to overcome your symptoms of AS, function effectively in the military and function in society at all? What were your tools Fnord and what were your techniques that you used? Can you tell us in concrete, specific and literal terms?

Wouldn't autism disqualify you from military service on health grounds?