[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm going to get flamed, but I think we should bring that back here, for many of the reasons the author lists.

[vetvetdoug]

I agree with you that mandatory military service should be a prerequisite for allowing one to vote and share in our precious freedom unless physically unable. Repeal the 17th and 19th Amendment too.

[ComputerGuy]

I agree, but the military brass don’t seem to like the idea.
Too many malcontents, I suppose.

[DesertRhino]

Not as long as they are thrown into wars of convenience, and the leadership is enamored with the idea of drag queens on navy ships at sea, trannies, lesbos running the Air Force academy, homos everywhere, and women in the infantry.

No family should be forced to send a kid into that sicko environment. This is not the military of the Reagan era.

[Manly Warrior]

I have said this for decades now.

All morally, physically and mentally qualified men (able to meet recruitment standards, that is) must elect any services modified basic training course and successfully complete it. Then, be affiliated with the reserve component for eight years with a brief annual training requirement of basic skills refresher. Women may choose the same or complete similar obligations in the civil sector.

This initial training must be completed post HS credentials(traditional or nontraditional) again meeting recruitment standards. Men who do not meet basic enlistment criteria are ineligible for said fed benefits, with exceptions of medical/mental, then those may seek alternate venues like the women, but all must serve; moral/legal ineligibles are SOL.

If men or women refuse, then they are banned from ever enjoying any federal educational benefits, and maybe more.

Exemptions are limited only to issues that disqualify from recruitment standards, every swinging Richard and singing Sally get to play.

Those who choose regular enlistment or are appointed to Service Academy are the only exemptions. Sr ROTC is treated much the same as today, but with a formal service basic training up front to wash out the lame lazy and unworthy/not serious to begin with ( our ROTC program is super wasteful for the officers it produces- some 25% of 4 year scholarship awardees commission at astronomical program cost).

Once the basic service requirement is completed successfully, then and only then do any and all federal benefit program become active.

NG an Reserve training centers can swell to provide the basic training modules in a summer- needs to be only 10 weeks for all services to get them to basic “integrate into a unit proficiency level”. Upon national emergency, we have a pool of reasonably well trained manpower to augment .