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Today's generation needs a reality check to how the world really. Them staying home being protected by their parents until they are around 30 doing no work or minimal work is not going to do it. Them going to college/university and returning home is not doing it. Then who is left?? It is really annoying dealing with 30 year old rugrats.
My kids were taught to be responsible starting at their first teen year for whatever. They were told that when they hit 18 or graduated HS that they needed to be working on living independent of home. Thus they were given the choice of getting a real job, continuing their education or going to the Military. One went to the Military directly and is a lifer with a family stationed in the mainland US and the other chose to continue his education, finished it, couldn't find a career paying enough to be independent and joined the Military and has been stationed in Hawaii. Both have been to Iraq/Afghanistan. They know what the reality of the world is and are not part of these crybabies rioting/protesting because they are upset that the person who won the US Democratic elections is not the person they voted for.
I come from a family that's been solidly military for over a century. Every man, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncles, cousins, all military. And the women married soldiers. I spent 26 years in the Air Force and married a soldier's daughter. I'm well aware of what the military is and does.
It's not the military's mission to fix a parent's spoiled brat. The military can often take a spoiled brat and make a soldier of him, but that's only incidental. It's not the mission.
Moreover, as has already been noted, taking 4,000,000 recruits a year would be extremely expensive. It would triple the size of the federal government overnight. It would endanger the actual mission of winning wars by tipping the proportion of trained to untrained troops.
If any of you want to force other people to do anything, why don't you do it yourself? Go to these kids' homes who you think need to be toughened up and PERSONALLY force them to sign up.
Would you feel justified in doing that, or does it not count if you have the government do it for you?
Come back when you have an adult suggestion instead of this nonsense.
I have a close friend that was frequently molested by his military officer stepfather. He did serve in two wars, but I can't say I think of him as much of a man.
"You could just Google it."
Why the cop out?
YOU made the claim. It is up to YOU to back it up.
"but I can't say I think of him as much of a man"
One anecdotal example does NOT paint the picture of EVERY young man that was drafted.
To think otherwise only shows you ARE not BEING SERIOUS IN THIS DISCUSSION.
Including women too? So what does an under 5 feet, 100 lbs. 18 year old woman DO in the Military? She would have a difficult time even driving a truck without a booster seat. Geesch.
Well Jo, we hear about "equal rights" all the time.
With "equal rights" come equal RESPONSIBILITY.f you want to enjoy the fruits of our country you should have to earn it.
"So what does an under 5 feet, 100 lbs. 18 year old woman DO in the Military?"
What does an under 5 feet, 100 lbs. 18 year old woman DO in the REST of the world?
You could be a "tunnel rat".
There are MORE non-combat jobs in the military as there are combat jobs.
Being you DON'T believe in equal rights you could be a cook, work in the laundry, clean up the barracks and offices, etc, you know, ALL those "woman's" jobs.
Would be the best thing this country ever did. Just look at these maladjusted, overweight and immature young people protesting about something most have no clue of. One girl (she was probably 5'2/200 lbs) suggested there would be bloodshed to get what they want. First off, who is going to shed their blood? I doubt she could climb a set of stairs without resting. These young people are lost. Their parents taught them nothing.
They do 2 years of military service and get 2 years of college in return.
Do they get safe spaces and "time out cards"?
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