You know nothing about my world, but yours is readily apparent to anyone reading your posts.
Ok, you are welcome to your opinion and I am welcome to mine.
In my opinion, your "idea" borders on marxism, but again that's just my opinion.
I still think it is a good idea in that it gives kids time to grow up and learn some personal responsibility before they go out to make their way in the world.
That's a PARENT'S job, not the job of the military. So tell me, do you advocate sending the PARENT'S of these "punks" as you call them into the military too? Obviously they've failed their jobs as Parents and need some help straightening out their lives too. Hell, with that change I might just be all for your idea - it'll fix two problems then.
There's a reason we have a volunteer military rather than forced service. What you're advocating is FORCED service - gee, much the same as Obama advocates in his "civilian" army that mirrors the military. IMO You're treading on dangerous ground here.
I said that there should be "some kind of required service after high school". That doesn't mean that every kid would be sent to the front against his will.
So tell me, who decides which "punks" as you call them should go to the front line and which should not? Who decides? You? Some Government Panel?
Let's get into the details of your idea here ...
In today's volunteer military, young people choose on their own to join and many choose to fight. Some even sign up for a second and third tour or maybe even a career in the military. I don't think it is a stretch to assume that in a mandatory military, some young people would still choose to fight, or at least train to fight if it becomes necessary.
It is admirable that you want to hold the parents of these kids responsible for their failures. I tend to think the parents will not take any more responsibility than they did while the kids were young. Just maybe a drill sergeant or service organization CEO would be able to make something of them.
I don't think the draft was Marxism and I don't think requiring kids to do some service is Marxism. I am not proposing we create Obama's "service corps(e)". I am talking about a period of discipline and personal responsibility for every young person. Some will come out better young adults. Some will come out not much better than they went in.