Posted on 05/29/2017 4:34:13 PM PDT by hapnHal
No, but I do have an idea for increasing troop strength. Create a contract for people to just do Basic Training and then be in the militia or IRR. You would shorten it somewhat to save money, but they will still get the same regular army pay. At the end of their basic training, you would see who would want to sign a regular contract. There is a large pool of men that would like to see if they could make it, but don’t want to take the risk if it does not work out. A lot less costly than drafting everyone and you get useful people who want to be there.
And even more liberal social engineering...
The last thing the military wants is thousands of angry kids being forced into service.
Sometimes they get even, like the one that threw a paint scraper into the reduction gears of the USS Ranger putting her in the yard for months during Linebacker II.
Which college are you presently attending?
Only for menial jobs - then let the draftees volunteer for the more technical/war-fighting jobs. Make the actual “in the trenches” jobs the elite ones.
I volunteered for the draft in '59, no regrets, got extended for 6 months by Kennedy during the Berlin crisis because I was stationed in Germany.
The Army was no nonsense, very tough {not like the Marines, but still very tough} and most of the top non-coms were vets of either WWII or Korea or both and having seen combat, had no use for whiners or bitchers and knew how to handle them.
My DI was a Korean War vet from Georgia, and that Johnny Reb, would literally kick your ass if you were dumb enough to challenge him.
For the most part, in today's specialist world, the Army grunt by the millions, is not necessary.
There is still a need for infantry, but those guys today are so far superior, in skills, training, strength, technology knowledge and desire that going back to a draftee Army makes very little sense.
If world events change, we can always change.
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