BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. The women's lib hippy feel good nonsense recruited women into the military. Socialists that think the military is the perfect place to conduct social experimentation recruited females into the military.
The all volunteer military isn't self-destructing....it is being intentionally destroyed from the outside. It isn't some Lance Corporal that decided to repeal DADT and pack the ranks with faggots. It isn't some Sgt deciding the Marine Corps needs to drop to a troop level of 150,000. It isn't a Capt deciding the Army needs to cut all those combat brigades.
It wasn't the troops that decided women should be in the infantry and special forces. Tell me, if the Army is dropping combat brigades and the Marine Corps is dropping infantry battalions, just how the hell do you explain there is a lack of men and therefore a need for women in these positions? How is it.? Please by all means enlighten me, when they are FORCING MEN OUT THAT WANT TO STAY!
The draft would be more expensive to maintain than the volunteer force. While service members receive benefits and incentives to enlist/re-enlist, today's military is highly technical......a two year turnover on draftees removes continuity and hinders operational capability.
For a Marine it is 3 months of recruit training, leave, and another month of combat training....before they ever get to their MOS school, which can be up to a year long - that's nearly 1 1/2 years and millions of dollars in training before their first day on the job.
For grunts, it is 3 months of RC, leave, and 2 mos of infantry school before they ever hit the fleet .......and usually 6 months+ before they, and their unit, are certified and shipped off on deployment. That's about a year for a brand new Marine to deploy for 6-7 months.....and then the end of of their draft time under your timetable.
We lost over 400,000 in WWII and nearly 60,000 in Vietnam with draftees. After over 10 years in Iraq and Afghanistan - less than 8,000. That is a direct reflection of willing people that are able to turnover skills and experiences (including advances in medicine that allow the injured to live through what would have previously killed them) and work in concert.
Not to mention, just conducting the background checks for upper level security clearances can run upwards of $50,000 - each serviceman.
In short the constant turnover and recycle would be MORE expensive under the draft.
If you want to know "who" is destroying the military, smile at the people you pass on your way to the grocery store, or pass at the mall. They voted for it.
Exactly. The former "America" committed suicide.
Yet the draft worked for 32 years, and kept costs down and females out, and we didn’t need 42 year old enlistees.
You’re pro military, that’s obvious. Give me your beliefs as to the good that was accomplished in VietNam (where I served two tours), Iraq and Afghanistan by the fighting, blood spills and the deaths.
I don’t mean the good that our military industrial complex received in the trillions of dollars that passed through their cash registers, I mean the good that came to the average American citizen as a result of all the men and women who were to become life long cripples, or died too many years before they should have.