Posted on 07/08/2018 12:16:57 PM PDT by rktman
This is a good source.
Just make sure you don’t give your kids to the indoctrination centers. You might have to sacrifice, but it will be worth it.
Good on ya’. Family dinners so important. I had the good fortune growing up to attend Department of Defense schools, still today cuts above the mess of the public schools. I have some left of center friends who do significant community service, but they are old school Southern Democrats, a dying breed, I think.
“...Every able body person after high school graduation goes into Army or Marine BCT.
Problem solved.” [M Kehoe, post 50]
There is no “Marine BCT”. USMC Recruit Training is its official title. Commonly called boot camp.
USMA and USAFA subject members of each incoming class to Basic Cadet Training, abbreviated BCT and called “beast” at West Point. Initial training for the incoming class of midshipmen at USNA is called Plebe Summer.
Universal military training is not the solution to all of society’s problems. The “option” of agreeing to undertake military service was offered to delinquents and petty offenders by some civilian judges as late as 1971; it worked - sort of - because the draft wasn’t stopped until 1973.
But 2018 is not 1971 (it’s not even 1981, and certainly no longer 1951); such training may have helped some then, but society has changed. The military establishment has less latitude than it used to, in dealing with “problem children”. And the armed forces themselves do not need masses of raw manpower, they need the right people - ones with brains and dedication who have a passion for the job. Physical condition helps too.
Conservatives typically object to social engineering by government decree. And many conservative pundits claim that the military’s job is national defense, not playing games as a social-science experimental lab for “caring people” who own a troubled conscience, and yearn to “fix” things by regimentation, discipline, and other coerced behavior.
Have them read Ray Bradbury, and then Robert Heinlein.
Ray Bradbury hooks them into the SF genre through emotion, mood and mystery.
Robert Heinlein directs them into being a libertarian and Conservatism.
Righteous indignation is occasionally necessary. But “aggrieved” is a 100% free choice. Don’t be a whiner in life. The other person has the right to make a small mistake about language.
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