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Folks in many militaries claim pacifism, and I understand this to be not uncommon in US forces during conscription. They’d end up being medics or similar roles.

It happened during the Iraq War. The Canadians had a bunch of problems deciding what to do with them.

Ah. There's a movie about this. It's called Hacksaw Ridge.

There's a large difference between conscientious objectors in a draft and professional service members who join up voluntarily understanding the expectations of them.

Aw man, I wish you'd watched the movie before commenting! Here's a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksaw_Ridge

Rather than being drafted, our protagonist enlisted!

>Imagine if a soldier refused to shoot a gun

They even made a movie about one of those soldiers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksaw_Ridge