"Let me preface this by my full support of the female VOLUNTEERS in our military."
That's real big of you.
Drafting only men made sense in the pre Ozzie and Harriet days, but the world has changed. Women are in just about every MOS in the military now. It won't be too many years before we see a women appointed as one of the service chiefs. And yet, in time of full mobilization we would only draft men. Please! It defies logic and it would be a mismanagement of the country's resources. You're living in the 50's man.
>Drafting only men made sense in the pre Ozzie and Harriet days, but the world has changed. Women are in just about every MOS in the military now. It won't be too many years before we see a women appointed as one of the service chiefs. And yet, in time of full mobilization we would only draft men. Please! It defies logic and it would be a mismanagement of the country's resources.<
Oh, please. It's bad enough having unwilling men in the service, much less women. Yes, there are women in the military. It doesn't mean EVERY young girl would be right for such a task. And, what on earth do you propose the country do with the hundreds of thousands of young children that would be left without a mother? You want to give a solution to that one? It's different with female volunteers. They know what they're getting themselves into.
There is a reason the Equal Rights Amendment was defeated. People did not want their daughters drafted.