[tpaine]

A professional, well-paid military is what you and I pay our taxes for.
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Indeed we do, and one of the best ways to get recruits is to draft them initially.
Quite a few draftees of the 40's thru 60's stayed in as a career.

In see nothing wrong with a draft/service obligation [with absolutely no deferments] for say a term of one year with a 'no combat clause'..

Call it a citizens duty, a 'rite of passage', -- whatever... But this country needs people 'indoctrinated' in constitutional knowledge and self defense.

[freeeee]

But this country needs people 'indoctrinated' in constitutional knowledge and self defense.

Gaining of constitutional knowledge? That's kind of funny considering how very clear they make it that once you're in the military, the Constitution no longer applies to you.

I object to the notion that the government should be indoctrinating anyone. We rule it, we tell it how it will be, not the other way around. It exists to serve us and for no other reason.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

But this country needs people "indoctrinated" in constitutional knowledge and self-defense.

And the rightful place for that instruction is the 13-plus years of government schooling that our tax dollars currently and relentlessly pay for.

"Compulsary, public service indoctrination" is simply the other end of "Mandatory, tax-funded pre-school."

Cradle-to-grave, thumb-sucking nanny government.