“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Doesn’t say “except when we want to use you to fight and die”. If you can’t attract soldiers, you are either not paying enough, or nobody feels your cause makes sense.
Increase the pay for a grunt to 100k a year and you’ll have all you want. Not patriotic? I dont see congressfools taking the pay of a private during wartime. I don’t see Lockheed execs willing to take a generals pay to be careful they don’t profit from the war.
No,,only the grunt is expected to give his services and life away for a pittance of pay to demonstrate his patriotism.
Modern Generals are nightmarish and have no respect for freedom.
And i’ll say it, it comes from life spent in the childlike world of the military. After all the holy talk is stripped away, they live in little centrally planned utopias. How many beers may you drink,, may i own a gun., lock up your gun at the armory, follow the rules very carefully,, you need a haircut, etc etc. Even the clerks at the PX can act like little martinets.
While that is necessary to create a disciplined fighting force, a lifetime there fills them with dread of the chaos of civilian life. Occasionally you see some retirees that dont make the adjustment well. They become royal pains in the ass in HOAs, complaining about a neighbors grass that is 2.5 inches tall when the rule reads 2 inches,,,etc etc.
And last of all, if you pack the military with homos, put the homos in charge, strictly muzzle the chaplains, let major Hassan evaluate them after deployment, and decide America needs to fight in Central Africa etc etc..
No,,,you certainly won’t get my kids to play with.
The Supreme Court has ruled against you innumerous cases. It is the exception they get away with.
I'll vouch for that one. I used to work building maintenance is a large Nursing Home Retirement Community Complex. In the retirement community where there houses two men who both were retired 0-5 & 0-6 did just that very thing all the time. The guys working yard crew hated seeing them doing their weekly walk thru LOL.