[Captain Peter Blood]

Throughout history there has been a draft when war came.
Even in W.W.II there was a draft.

Perhaps if some of these “Snowflakes” had to serve a little time in the military they might get a clue.

During the 1950’s after Korea we still had a draft and people served for about 18 months to 2 years.

A little military discipline never hurt anyone.

[DesertRhino]

“A little military discipline never hurt anyone.”

Actually, yes it did. In fact it killed and maimed tens of thousands. And as an aside, I don’t like the snowflakes. But who the hell are you to arrange their lives to suit you? Or maybe you mean it’s the US governments job to parent them, to make them into the way they should be? To create a new soviet man? I think I missed the social engineering amendment.

So I’ll just skip over the childish concept of “government as parent” that you love so much, and ask you if the military discipline you mention would come from a government that is pushing homosexuality, trannys, women in the infantry, breast feeding moms, etc?
Yeahhhh... a few years living as a child of the US Govt, that’ll make a man out of you. lol

[NorthMountain]

Even in W.W.II there was a draft.

From Wiki

"By 1942, the SSS moved away from administrative selection by its more than 4,000 local boards to a system of lottery selection. Rather than filling quotas by local selection, the boards now ensured proper processing of men selected by the lottery.[19] On December 5, 1942, a presidential executive order changed the age range for the draft from 18–45 to 18–35, and ended voluntary enlistment."

WWII was (so far) the only US war in which conscription became the only source of enlistment.