[jrd]

I think when you graduate from high school everyone should enter the military and spend at least two years. I also thing that all officers should have to serve time as and enlisted person

[xone]

Two years, everyone? It isn't a jobs program.

I also thing that all officers should have to serve time as and enlisted person

Why?

[jagusafr]

Interesting thought - my take on this is a little different and disregards the diversity argument: I have been pondering whether one of the reasons we’ve declined as a nation is that EVERYBODY isn’t required to serve when they reach adulthood - no deferrals, no exemptions except for physical or mental inability. It seems to me that when, in McChrystal’s words (though not with his agenda), people have “skin in the game”, they tend to think harder about whether to go to war.

Comments?

Colonel, USAFR

[scbison]

Before Dece,ber 2010, I would have agreed with your statement. Now, noway not with all the sodomites

[Arrowhead1952]

I think when you graduate from high school everyone should enter the military and spend at least two years. I also thing that all officers should have to serve time as and enlisted person.

I agree with both statements. The second is a major problem. We used to call 2nd LTs "90 day wonders", and they had no clue what leadership involves, other than being a dog. You keep kicking a dog, and it will eventually get tired and go fetch the stick.

[wally_bert]

I am in 100% agreement with you.

[dangerdoc]

“I think when you graduate from high school everyone should enter the military and spend at least two years.”

Military service is an honor not an endenture, if you don’t want to serve, I don’t want you to.

“I also thing that all officers should have to serve time as and enlisted person.”

Do you think that would make the military more fair?

[rem_mitchell]

“I think when you graduate from high school everyone should enter the military and spend at least two years. I also thing that all officers should have to serve time as and enlisted person.”
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I know a lot of kids who got their lives turned around by going into the service. I know that is not the purpose of the military, but I’m wondering if the wrong path the country is taking lately is not due to a populous that is dominated by people who have had it too easy for too long, who don’t know what sacrifices have been made for them. I don’t think that a nation that had shared the responsibility of military service would have elected Obama.