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It would be cheaper and improve the quality of the military. Just draft 22 year old, college graduates first, 3 years active duty and then 3 years reserves.
Many on these forums have opined that our dead veterans died persecuting the unfortunate citizens of lesser capable countries and that our wounded veterans are living off the welfare programs of the VA funded by their tax dollars. Complaints have also been parroted that business and corporations have done little in the area of educating and training of a workforce.
Let's work to bring back the Draft.
As a nation, we should require that everyone between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five serve three years of military service. This means both male and female citizens.
We can cut benefits. We can only benefit those who are directly involved in a combat action or actually injured in performance of their military duties.
The military can provide a myriad of educational and job training opportunities to our young people. The Navy has most probably the very best in electronics training opportunities available anywhere. All branches of the military train in HVAC, electrician skills, plumbing, carpentry, diesel mechanics, vehicular repair, nursing, X-ray technology, ultrasound technology, dental hygiene, etc., etc. This would reinforce and enhance any and all of our young peoples' opportunities for employment in the private sector.
We could actually secure our nation's own borders utilizing our military as many other countries now do. Such a move would require less numbers of high-salaried federal Border Patrol agents.
You claim the all-volunteer army attracts better educated personnel? Not so. If EVERYONE served three years then even these better educated would serve as well.
I have served under both systems, what we have today is a far better system than what we had before with the draft.
I have served under both systems, what we have today is a far better system than what we had before with the draft.
Possibly so but it would be an aid in educating and training the marketable skills of those who will not take it upon themselves to get the job skills needed to lift themselves out of poverty and dead-end minimum wage jobs. It might even lend itself to lessening the disdain so many young people have for their own country. It might instill in these a sense of pride.
Nope. Sorry. Once you're drafted or volunteer for service you're Uncle Sam's property. No thanks! I'm nobody's pawn! Now, I don't have a problem helping vets, given our warmongers at the top put these people in harms way in the first place trying to use our military as the world police.
You had rather pay someone to do the killing in your stead.
Which is useful for the military, but not private practice.
Unless you are saying people should join the military to get the college education they pay for.
In case you are totally oblivious: One can get an accounting degree over the internet. One can become a CPA without ever having set foot in a brick and mortar college provided one can pass the exam.
Yes. The military does pay towards college and also pays an enlistment bonus for going into certain fields in which there exists a shortage. My son got a $2000.00 bonus for signing up for a school on power generator repair. He also got college assistance.
You are over the line, I would suggest backing it down a notch
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