I got an idea. Every able body person after high school graduation goes into Army or Marine BCT.
Problem solved.
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See post 51. You would think but not always.
That just passed you off, didn’t it?
Take care buddy, see you on the other side.
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“...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.