Should have ever gotten rid of the draft....why should only ten percent serve...and ninety percent do nothing...
I tend to agree but in this day and age, with our education system being what it is, but what do you do with those that don’t show up?
Even today a dishonorable discharge is almost non-existent. Kids get a General, wait 6 months and then file to have it changed to Honorable. So their lives aren’t effected by the dishonorable discharge.
Liberals have destroyed EVERYTHING. ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.
I was always for a truly universal male draft at age 17. It would consist of basic and infantry training for 6 months or a year then release with no direct enlistment. I would even require a 3 month hiatus before a trainee can enlist in the regular military. Fear of the military which fueled the draft riots and antiwar nonsense would not exist because everyone would have experienced the military. It would not be something that gets one behind one’s non drafted peers in the education and job markets. Comes a war and a necessity, a more than sufficient number of men would be lining up to enlist. But the draft must not include women or women should go to a separate organization and train for home defense and organization but must not have the choice to enlist for combat.