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To: delta7
Everyone talking about an impending draft fails to realize that today's U.S. military does not possess the tools or skillset to train, discipline, or lead malcontent, angry conscripts who don't want to be there.

Our entire senior enlisted leadership were volunteers who came up through the ranks when the rules were simple. Follow orders or get kicked out. They didn't need to use any sort of corporal punishment to keep service members in line. They just sent them to NJP where they were either busted down in rank (losing money) or processed out for separation.

Imagine ordering some conscript gang-banger to go fix a multi-million dollar aircraft only to be met with, "FU sarge! You do it! I didn't sign up for this!"

They have no tools or skills to discipline this form of insubordination, unless we intend on building a whole bunch of new brigs to confine defiant draftees, --and then what was the point of drafting them in the first place if only to lock them up in Leavenworth?

30 posted on 07/06/2024 12:37:58 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

All good points—but Congress does lots of stupid stuff because logistics is a foreign language for them.


31 posted on 07/06/2024 12:39:20 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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