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We Need a Limited Military Draft
Military.com ^ | 29 Jul 2023 | Joe Plenzler

Posted on 07/30/2023 10:41:05 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: draft; recruitment
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1 posted on 07/30/2023 10:41:05 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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2 posted on 07/30/2023 10:41:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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No, we don’t. If we stopped the military from being so woke, we’d have enough volunteers.


3 posted on 07/30/2023 10:42:21 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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All the Neocons and Democratic politicians need to be drafted and sent to the Russian front.

Leave everybody else alone.


4 posted on 07/30/2023 10:43:21 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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No.

End constant war for questionable purposes. End LGBTP+ political indoctrination for military personnel. The problem will solve itself.


5 posted on 07/30/2023 10:43:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Uh, NO.

The first order of business is to have a country worth defending. THEN come and have a conversation about how to go about doing that.

Nobody with a brain and/or a moral compass has any business in the U.S. military today.

6 posted on 07/30/2023 10:43:35 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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It’s a serious problem. I can totally understand why any youts with common sense would view the current armed services with much suspicion.


7 posted on 07/30/2023 10:44:25 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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I AGREE and it should begin with the Children and Grand Children between the ages of 17 and 30 of EVERY ELECTED or APPOINTED official in this country


8 posted on 07/30/2023 10:44:59 AM PDT by eyeamok
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And now a draft allows them to flood the military with folks who will have no problem putting down the patriots.


9 posted on 07/30/2023 10:45:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Nothing the feral government does is ever “limited.”

All feral government policies are metastatic cancers that never stop growing.


10 posted on 07/30/2023 10:45:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Yep, we knew these articles would start coming.


11 posted on 07/30/2023 10:46:10 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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Limit the draft to those who identify only by their biological sex at birth... Male and female...

Exclude perverts & non-citizens...


12 posted on 07/30/2023 10:46:20 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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Start with the families at the top of the economic and political food chain.


13 posted on 07/30/2023 10:47:57 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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Put all the trannys and homos in there. Make it mandatory.


14 posted on 07/30/2023 10:48:26 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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No.

End constant war for questionable purposes. End LGBTP+ political indoctrination for military personnel. The problem will solve itself.

No way!


15 posted on 07/30/2023 10:48:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The very most questionable things are the ones that you are forbidden to ask or to question!)
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Forcing Americans in the 18-26 year-old range to team up with the freaks and perverts now serving would be tantamount to kidnapping and sex trafficking. Naturally that makes perfect sense in an administration hell bent on using the world’s children for playthings through open borders.


16 posted on 07/30/2023 10:50:31 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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No. We need a military dedicated from the top, and a foreign policy restricted to promoting a realistic and uncorrupted, uninflated, sense of the national (not deep state - imperial) interest. All volunteer would be more than sufficient.


17 posted on 07/30/2023 10:51:00 AM PDT by Palmetto State Conservative
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It’s time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military.


Is that the goal or is there more to it? What should be the goal?

https://www.defense.gov/About/

. Our mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security.

If that was the true mission, we would attract the right people.


18 posted on 07/30/2023 10:51:02 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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And recruitment has risen and fallen with the national unemployment rate. The causes of this crisis are many, and both politicians and our national leadership are largely to blame.

The all-volunteer army always met it annual recruiting goals from 1973-2020. What happened starting in 2021? I'm trying to think...

19 posted on 07/30/2023 10:52:00 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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....absolutely not!!! no way in hell.....I went to Navy boot camp at Great Lakes in the early 1960s and looked forward to my Navy service....if that Navy had been today’s Navy I would have never signed up...get rid of the wokesters, the open homos, the trannies, the officer corps who push CRT and so forth to keep their careers on track and maybe there would be enough volunteers, but now...?? no way, Jose.....


20 posted on 07/30/2023 10:53:04 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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