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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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: draft; recruitment
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To: discostu

Well said.


41 posted on 07/30/2023 11:10:30 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican

If you read the neocon opinion journals (and I do), they are facing defeat in Ukraine and their fantasy plan is to send in “NATO” to not only push the Russians out of the Ukraine but then to go all the way to Moscow and dissolve the Russian Federation into mini- and micro-states, easily ruled by neoliberal institutions.

For this, they are going to need much larger US ground forces.

And for that, they are going to need a draft.


42 posted on 07/30/2023 11:10:32 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Make the GOP illegal - everything else will follow)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

2 year enlistments in the infantry and non skilled jobs where no significant training is required. Make it worth their while by giving 401k bonuses after a year. An up-to 90 day early release if it coincides with a community college/trade school start.

18/19 year-olds could choose between this military jump-start in life or choose a community college set up on the trimester system-no long summer vacations. A skilled trade can be taught in the military with a longer commitment. This option could compete with McJobs, the only option out there. Young folks would be ‘doing something’ rather than lounge around not knowing what to do with themselves.

It starts with raising the age of adulthood to 20. No more voting for 18/19 year-olds EXCEPT those serving in the military. It takes away the ‘if they’re old enough to fight’ argument.

Young folks have gotta get on with their lives. I’ve also suggested allowing 16 year-olds to take and pass the GED and then deal with his/her options. And to think the rats solution is to allow 16 year-olds to vote. In my way they’d earn their way to adulthood.


43 posted on 07/30/2023 11:12:20 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: Reverend Wright

Why would they even want to work for citizenship these days? To get the opportunity to pay taxes?


44 posted on 07/30/2023 11:12:22 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I turned 18 in May 1968. I had eight years of deferments II-S and then II-H for medical school.

In exchange for the II-H, I was draft-eligible until age 42.

Looking back on it, the student deferment for college was corrupt and should never have been allowed.


45 posted on 07/30/2023 11:15:00 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Make the GOP illegal - everything else will follow)
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To: MinorityRepublican
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46 posted on 07/30/2023 11:15:20 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: Vermont Lt

That’s fine with me. I went through basic training for correctional officers at age 48...fire arms, unarmed self-defense, riot batons, etc. Wish I’d could have done it 30 years earlier. It developed something inside me that I didn’t know needed developing.


47 posted on 07/30/2023 11:15:30 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: 9YearLurker

Exactly.


48 posted on 07/30/2023 11:17:05 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: ryderann

ryderman-Bingo!


49 posted on 07/30/2023 11:17:46 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: proust

Maybe they would be exempt from taxes the way EU bureaucrats are.


50 posted on 07/30/2023 11:20:00 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I still remember these guys:

51 posted on 07/30/2023 11:20:26 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"White men are a menace."

"White men are evil, white supremacists."

"Oh no! muh evil Putin is taking over the world! White men come enlist and do your patriotic duty!"

52 posted on 07/30/2023 11:20:55 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Jim Noble

Oh HELL NO!

Do we want a nuclear war? Because this is how you get a nuclear war.


53 posted on 07/30/2023 11:21:32 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 9YearLurker
If we stopped deploying them worldwide in hundreds of bases, but put an effective number on our southern border to keep the invaders out, we’d have plenty—on a volunteer basis.

We need to downsize the Army and the Marine Corps. Focus on the Navy.

54 posted on 07/30/2023 11:23:35 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Gen.Blather

RIGHT!

And if we stopped needlessly poking the Bear!!!!


55 posted on 07/30/2023 11:23:45 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“We Need a Limited Military Draft”

No.

You think morale is low now? Force people into the military and then have a drag queen order them to take an experimental vaccine. It could happen.


56 posted on 07/30/2023 11:24:13 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sounds like a great student loan forgiveness plan, kind of a GI bill in reverse. One year for every $10K of debt.


57 posted on 07/30/2023 11:24:20 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: FreedomPoster

And stop putting females in the military.


58 posted on 07/30/2023 11:26:41 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Jim Noble

The student deferment for college is a large part of how we wound up with the Left controlling the university system.


59 posted on 07/30/2023 11:27:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Bigg Red

I’m good with that. At least not in combat arms, front line positions. Support roles similar to WWII era WACs, OK.


60 posted on 07/30/2023 11:28:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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