Posted on 04/15/2026 3:21:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rob Schneider, who has never served in the military and is now too old to do so, took to social media on Friday to call for the United States to “restore the military draft for our nation’s young people” amid the ongoing war with Iran that was started by President Trump and Israel.
“We must once again recommit ourselves to one Nation under God, indivisible. Therefore, we must restore the military draft for our Nation’s young people,” Schneider said. “Each and every American, at eighteen years of age, must serve two years of military service.”
The Sopranos star Michael Imperioli absolutely cooked Rob Schneider’s ‘comedy’ over his calls to reinstate a military draft
While Schneider’s take was swiftly and widely lambasted on social media, perhaps the most cutting response came from Michael Imperioli, who suggested Iran would surrender if they had to listen to Schneider’s “comedy.”
“I’ve got a better idea. Let’s just send Rob to Iran to perform his comedy. They will surrender immediately and unconditionally,” the fame Christopher Moltisanti actor shared on Instagram.
Imperioli’s shot at Schneider is reminiscent of when the late, great Norm Macdonald absolutely cooked him while appearing on Conan.
The conflict between the U.S. and Iran began at the end of February, with military strikes coordinated by the Trump administration and Israel targeting Iranian military infrastructure, nuclear facilities, and leadership.
Despite recent suggestions, however, the Trump administration says they have no plans to reinstate a military draft at this time. Given the admin’s penchant for deception, though, the anxiety about the return of the draft continues to permeate.
FIFY
Iran has been at war with the US for over 45 years, we only just started to fight back.
There is no draft for the Marine Corps.
For the other branches of service, like I said, women are boss babes and slay kweens. If they take more casualties than the men, draft more women to keep the 50/50 equality.
You have a skewed view of the disciplinary system. Company Grade or Field Grade officers almost never see an Article 15: if they screw up badly enough, they’ll get a poor Fitness Report, of Nonpunitive Letter of Caution, or a Letter of Reprimand. Any of those are likely to end your chances of promotion and you might as well get the old resume out and start looking at civilian life.
I’ve never heard of an officer getting an Article 15. Courts Martial for serious offenses - but those are very rare. The service gets rid of poor officers by failing to promote.
As far as criticizing women’s performance in the combat arms, all you have to do is stick to the facts and keep it within the service. Those of us have seen combat only deal in effectiveness and unit cohesion. We’ll see how well our leaders deal with this.
The Marines most certainly are part of the draft forces of major wars like Vietnam, Korea, and WWII.
You also didn’t answer the question.
I have. Twice. One lieutenant got an Article 15 due to the length of his hair. Another was caught using marijuana.
This was at Fort Lewis 50+ years ago.
What is the percentage of enlisted to commissioned officers?
Five years ago the enlisted members make up 82% of the armed forces, the first report said, while officers (including warrant officers) make up the remaining 18%.What is the percentage of enlisted Article 15 non-judicial punishments versus commissioned officer Article 15 non-judicial punishment?
There are vastly different career implications for most actions between officer and enlisted. For an Officer, LORs come with a mandatory UIF.So face the fact that the Article 15 non-judicial punishment is predominantly for the enlisted enlisted troops. Officers are given the option to resign from a dead-end career.Punishment is meant to be rehabilitative for enlisted, but it's a career killer for officers. Officers are expected to act right from day one, so they typically mess up big time in order to earn an LOR.
That’s when I was at Ft. Lewis, I used to go to the Shelter Half in Tacoma for the free food and political arguments about the war, and the North Vietnamese propaganda movies.
Having a 50/50 male/female military will make our country much, much stronger.
Within 48 hours we won't have feminism and we won't have forever wars for bankers. Within a short period of time, our debt of $140 trillion will be greatly reduced.
Because once 100% has skin in the game instead of just 50%, things will change for the better.
You really are childlike.
A few would get an Article 15 for a DUI. Depending on the level of their security clearance, they'd lose not just the clearance but their position and would be reassigned to an admin or protocol role until they fulfilled their Active Duty Service Committment (ADSC).
If a lieutenant, they wouldn't be promoted to captain and would be discharged at the four year mark. If already a captain, they'd be discharged at the end of their ADSC which was usually two years incurred from their Date Arrived Station.
(Pilots and navigators had longer ADSCs and depending on staffing shortages, would be kept on board since rated captains could serve twenty years without being promoted to major).
Yeah, I understood what you wrote the first time. No need to stutter.
Such Ad Hominem attacks don't change that any discussion of a draft for the U.S. military would include the question as to why women don't have to register with Selective Service.
It's about the equality which they demanded. It's about having women, and female politicians in particular, playing Schodinger's Feminist - a woman is simultaneously a Victim and Empowered until something happens. Then she chooses which state benefits her the most.
If it takes a child to call out that the Emperor has no clothes, so be it.
Sign them up and ship them out.
Just silly.
The biggest problem with the draft is training, disciplining, and instilling camaraderie among angry malcontents who don't want to be there. The NCOs tasked with carrying this out simply do not possess the toolset required, seeing how they volunteered and have served exclusively in a military of volunteers since the day they enlisted.
Imagine being an E5 or E6 and trying to order some former blue-haired Antifa type to go execute a task. "F*** YOU SARGE! I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS!"
These people would be toxic to morale and flat out dangerous to be around.
And yes, I know many draftees served with honor and courage in the past. But let's be honest, that was a different America.
Today, the juice ain't worth the squeeze and while I respect Rob Schneider, he's wrong on this one.
For quite a long time, Schneider has been something of a darling for the Right and an opponent of “Wokeism”, etc etc. all the predictable stances....he’s spoken publicly about it numerous times, never with much originality. He is obviously very inconsistent and non-doctrinaire, of course, but this draft thing is seemingly ripped from the Israeli playbook, and he embraces it bc he’s trying to lamely make the point that WE should get ready for the Final Showdown....this is Pure Netanyahu. So I don’t know where anybody on this thread can call him a “Leftist” None of them I know or know of would support anything like a draft or an urging for voluntary conscription to fight “the Enemy”
The conflict between the U.S. and Iran began at the end of February, in 1979 with the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on August 19, 1953 when the CIA under Operation Ajax and MI6 under Operation Root, overthrew the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in a coup in order to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry.
Actually Mossadegh was selected by the Shah, as were previous prime ministers. Mossadegh decided he was more powerful than the Shah and was taken out for that reason.
The Coast Guard was under the Department of Transportation. It was boat safety, rescues, and police work. (It’s the cops).
Surveillance missions? Sitting in Oklahoma or Fort Riley not looking at much at all. Blue skies and tornados.
Korean deployment? 90% running around like you would in Oklahoma or Ft. Riley, but with a high chance of bringing home an exotic STD.
Nuclear missile silos? Running around Oklahoma or Ft. Riley and maybe reading about one in a National Geographic at the post exchange.
Lebanon? One of those “peace keeping missions” that had no purpose and never intended to have a purpose?
Grenada? Grenada? 7,600 US military invaded an island of 90,000 non combatants. There would have been more as everyone in the military wanted to take off their barrel blank caps and finally do something other than run around Oklahoma or Ft. Riley just to say they saw war. The Grenadians loved us and now October 25th is their national Thanksgiving Day for the US showing up. 10 days total and the soldiers in Oklahoma or Ft. Riley might have even missed that if it happened they were too interested in their Nat Geo silo stories.
Honduras? We’ve been mucking around there since the 1830’s. Not only did the soldiers in Oklahoma and Kansas not heard of the place, not many of the 2 million US service members could tell you where it was on the map.
Rob’s just fine.
No, I was interested in your service. I got close but they didn’t take many after high school.
I almost got into the Naval Academy. Took 2 years to get an appointment.
Did you write that frikkin' headline?
Regards,
“””””The biggest problem with the draft is training, disciplining, and instilling camaraderie among angry malcontents who don’t want to be there. The NCOs tasked with carrying this out simply do not possess the toolset required, seeing how they volunteered and have served exclusively in a military of volunteers since the day they enlisted.”””””
We use to have a permanent draft and it worked fine from 1940 through 1973 without interruption, the drill sergeants, including the ones who started out as draftees themselves managed to teach the recruits.
If our drill sergeants can’t handle the eternal scared young males with brains full of mush that armies have handled from the beginning of time, then something else is wrong in the military.
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