We Need a Limited Military Draft

Military.com ^ | 29 Jul 2023 | Joe Plenzler

[MinorityRepublican]

It's time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military.

Since 1775, our nation has used a combination of volunteers and draftees to meet our national defense personnel needs, especially in times of crisis.

Today, the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs. But after two decades of war -- both of which ended unsuccessfully -- and low unemployment, many experts believe the all-volunteer force has reached a breaking point. And American confidence in its military is at a low.

[Alberta's Child]

The U.S. ceased being a great country once it became legally and culturally accepted for the government to draft its citizens to fight in combat even when Congress never issued a formal declaration of war.

I still marvel at how docile and compliant a population must be for them to allow that sh!t to happen.

[DesertRhino]

That is true on a deeper level. The 14th Amendment made a draft illegal. No Involuntary Servitude except as punishment for a crime. No exceptions for a war, for draft, etc.
When Woodrow Wilson wanted to have a draft for his WWI adventure, he used serious some Progressive Era sophistry.

He said when Congress declared war on Germany, that was the entire nation “volunteering” through their representatives. So it was not a draft against their will. The entire nation had volunteered according to Woodrow, and the “Selective Service” was so named because they were merely selecting from a giant pool of volunteers!

Though it makes some angry, it is involuntary servitude.

[Bigg Red]

Agree.

[Bigg Red]

Introducing females was a deliberate move targeting destruction of the warrior culture.

[wally_bert]

I know a SC NG officer being sent to Africa yo oversee building bridges and some other infrastructure.

The mind boggles.

[jack308]

As a an old tin-can sailor this brought a tear to my eye.

[rollo tomasi]

Entered WWI late in the game, besides Wilson lied his ass off.
WWII Stalingrad took care of the Nazis overextending in regards to fighting multiple fronts D-Day and Battle of the Bulge needed what? About the size of the current voluntary force. A lot of American GIs were sitting on their thumbs in England/bases in the US. A-Bomb took care of Japan which again, a voluntary force was enough to maintain order.
Vietnam we got our ass kick and became a farce when the Pentagon Papers and Gulf of Tonkin occurred which you actually have the stupidity now to trust our government, lol.
Quit licking Statist’s boots, conscription to fight foreign wars is an evil practice.

[cherry]

okay...no exceptions for rich boys or college boys and I want exactly the same percentage of whites as there are in the population and lets make sure all the minorities fill their quota too.....

[rollo tomasi]

Screw that, females can fight in combat now. If my sons will be conscripted, my daughters should be conscripted as well. Equality, your an idiot if you think females can have it both ways.
If females want to be equal, they should have the same civic responsibilities as males. If not, stay in the kitchen pumping babies out. Of course females are not doing that, they are competing with males in the workplace. Again, screw that hypocrisy.

[stylin19a]

Vietnam we got our ass kick and became a farce when the Pentagon Papers and Gulf of Tonkin occurred which you actually have the stupidity now to trust our government, lol. Quit licking Statist’s boots, conscription to fight foreign wars is an evil practice.

you assume and presume way more than you have knowledge of. More hollow than rollo.

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[BlueLancer]

As a an old tin-can sailor this brought a tear to my eye.

[Retain Mike]

Yep. Every bit of it resonates with me. I am at the editing stage of memoir I’ll send to the U.S. Naval Institue titled The Foul Weather Jacket. The jacket has 23 patches covering my three and a half years on active duty, mostly with the Riverine Navy on an LST, but with four months attached to an ARG that deployed from the west coast, and a year at Assault Craft Unit One.

[Retain Mike]

Yep. Every bit of it resonates with me. I am at the editing stage of memoir I’ll send to the U.S. Naval Institue titled The Foul Weather Jacket. The jacket has 23 patches covering my three and a half years on active duty, mostly with the Riverine Navy on an LST, but with four months attached to an ARG that deployed from the west coast, and a year at Assault Craft Unit One.

[Parmy]

I saw them in Vietnam. They weren't just criminals. They were what I said, individuals to beef up draft enlistments because of all the deferments that were allowed.

They were a disaster. They couldn't do their assigned jobs. They got people killed and in some cases they did kill our own people. Not because they were criminals, but because they couldn't remember 'passwords' or in some cases distinguish friend from foe.

So the overall cost went beyond dollars and cents. It cost lives.

[jack308]

It would be great to be able to read it when you finish. You can really capture so much in just a few words Respect!

[Retain Mike]

I was at a coffee shop going through this essay and happened to mention it was now over 50,000 words. The guy, who was an author, said it was officially a memoir and not an essay anymore.

[Responsibility2nd]

[Reverend Wright]

LOL !

[Gen.Blather]

I don’t know when this was intiated, probably as an aftereffect of Project One Hundred Thousand. It is not legal to enduct anyone into the military with an IQ under 83. If yhou’re familiar with a normal distribution, one hundred is st the center. Half of the people are below 100. There are a significant number of people with an IQ below 83. They are unusable for most jobs as they can’t be trained.

BTW, the center for the normal distribution for black IQ is lower.

This doesn’t mean people with an IQ lower than 83 are bad people. It does mean you shouldn’t give them a gun and have them as the support backup you depend on.

[Parmy]

Well, they were inducted and they were given guns. No matter how you dress up a bad program, it is still a bad program.

I might add that there were more than a hundred thousand. From my research, it was closer to 380 thousand.