I served in the US Army,I liked that we were all volunteers and not “volunteered”.Not that I have anything against you making this suggestion.
It just felt better to know the whole unit wanted to be here.
Pork Chop Platoon
Is that even numerically possible 2 million in the military plus reserves and 25 million men 18-29.
Required service is how you get Obama’s civilian corp where most would get utter progressive brain rot.
I knew a guy in 1968-1969 that LOST weight so that he would not get drafted. He looked like sticks, but was under the minimum weight that they would take him. He had to keep it off for years, too. The Army would call him in at odd times several times a year to weigh him. That takes more will power than I have.
He'd lose it, he thought.
End of the tour, he was still a big ol' fatass.
The Chub Club?
That’s horrible. ROK army training isn’t rough enough to go that far to avoid it. They take good care of their soldiers. Being fat is no fun. It’s uncomfortable and debilitating.
I agree. Make men out of American boys. It would improve our nation in many ways again. If we can’t afford to keep them for a couple of years, give ‘em at least three months of OSUT training after they reach 18 or graduate high school (eight weeks basic phase one and 5 weeks more infantry or engineer training to finish them up), and they can go where they wish from there. Make it rough enough to change them.
Reminds me of the late ‘60’s in High School....some were caught in the draft and notified during their senior year, were also told they needed to lose some weight to pass the physical....remember one guy who always had 3 lunch trays in front of him in the cafeteria....
How do you conspire to gain weight?
When the space aliens invade, they will eat the fat ones first.
“I kind of wish they’d bring that back here so all of society participates in the defense of our country.”
The draft motivated the left that helped get the 60’s cultural revolution off to a fast start. The protests, the MSM telling half truths and outright lies about the Vietnam war. Communism was an outside threat that required our troops to stay there. We pulled out. The South lost.
Our current sandbox wars are no different than Vietnam with respect to the need to defeat larger outside threats which would be Islam. If we pull out of the sandbox countries, we lose. We are spending our own men and women’s lives and billions of dollars on these wars and no one really cares.
Bring the draft back, and the left will go apeshit. Suddenly everyone will care about our current wars. Leftism has been fine tuned since Vietnam. The protests will be more violent and the MSM will really crank up the non-facts machine.
I agree with you, we should all participate. But the draft will wreck our country.