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.
Not a single person serving in the military today was drafted. We are all volunteers, to the last man and woman.
We don't want to serve with conscripts. No thank you. Not worth the trouble. If you want to fight, enlist. Volunteer like we did.
If you don't? Stay away, by all means. We don't need you and we absolutely don't want you.
I think the last draftee left service in October of 2014, but you ignored my post and make the current drill sergeants seem incapable of shaping young men.
I don’t think most of us today consider the average male/female GI individual as tougher and harder than the male counterpart of WWII or Korea, or Vietnam.
But - Publius - you're talking about the '70s and the services was loaded with the dregs at the tail end of Vietnam. We finally flushed the drug dealers, thieves, and race rioters out of the Corps in 1975 when Gen Wilson finally gave us the tools to get rid of all that detritus.
I have certainly held Office Hours (Article 15) a number of times as a battalion commander. The funniest one was when a corporal of mine repeatedly got in fistfights with his wife in public. I'd warned him before and he got in another one, so he came before me and his wife showed up too. She was big bruiser and she said "I'm not an inconsiderable woman - and I can beat any man in this room".
I said to the corporal's 6 foot 2 Captain battery commander "OK Mike, twenty bucks on you, 3 out of 5". After the laughter died down, the corporal lost a stripe.
Marriage made in heaven, I guess.
Agreed. The sad part is that combat requires the same qualities it always had, but our politicians (including those wearing uniforms) have forgotten that.
I just cleared up something about my stepfather during the last hour while I was looking at his obituary and burial information.
My step dad had mentioned being in the Navy and the Marines and since we never got into any details I wondered if he had been a Navy medic who served with the Marines and just rounded it off as Navy and Marines to save explaining things.
What I learned this morning is that he was Navy for WWII as a young guy and then joined the Marines for Korea, a little like actor James Garner who was a young Merchant Marine at the tail end of WWII and then Army in Korea.
Both of my grandfathers served in WWI and my dad and both uncles were in one WWII and one of those uncles was a fighter pilot who flew the Very Long Range missions in a P-51 from Iwo Jima to Japan and back. At least that uncle told me some of his stories, but he never wrote anything down for posterity.
Everyone's histories are unique and they are lost forever unless we write them while we can.
“This Leftist? What has he ever done?”
He’s f$#@d with the Vipers and an interior decorator who killed 16 Czechoslovakians.
True. I was in from 1971 to 1973 via ROTC. Drugs were everywhere. One night as Duty Officer, I walked past a barracks where there was so much marijuana smoke, I thought I might get a contact high. I wasn't going to do it by the book, i.e., arrest an entire company and call the CID. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor, especially when the company is majority black.
I grabbed one of the troops and said, "You're damn lucky my allergies are acting up because I can't smell a goddam thing. But I'm going back to Battalion Headquarters, spray my nose, and when I walk past here again, I want to smell nothing but God's fresh air!"
When I walked past the barracks later, all I could smell was Right Guard.
That’s funny! It was a tough time to be a junior leader, but we made it..
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