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To: allmendream

I challenged your petty contempt for GIs who were drafted, 93% of the United States Army of WWII were draftees, in the Marine Corp, Navy, and Coast Guard, 1,730,194 were draftees in WWII. In Korea 84,000 Marines were drafted in just 15 months, by December of 1952, 63% of our Army enlisted fighting in Korea were draftees.

I spent time training with the German Fernsphäher in Germany and even longer with the French 13th Regiment during the 1980s, I thought they seemed to be fine soldiers.

I saw many fine draftees when I was regular army, they gave us the luxury of requiring by law that less than 2% of our military be female.

It is easy to take a fine young man and turn him into a motivated, well trained, fully qualified soldier, that is something that you cannot do with females.

Already in the Army Reserve, females are about 30% of our enlistments, the military is headed to be at least 50% female, but draft free which you seem pleased with.

You seem too taken with some kind of urban myth about the draft, and if you think that Knights and Samurai preferred females filling their ranks rather than handpicked men, then I have to doubt you.


111 posted on 02/13/2012 2:37:30 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12
I challenge your petty contempt for our fine Female Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen - who were all volunteers who WANTED TO serve our nation.

Sorry you don't think they should be able to serve voluntarily and would prefer slave soldiers conscripted under the threat of imprisonment - making Military service only one small step above imprisonment as a vocation.

The universal contempt of professional soldiers for conscript soldier was my topic, that and the incompatibility of a Government of limited and enumerated powers that recognizes the natural rights of life liberty and pursuit of happiness with the involuntary servitude of conscripted military service.

You are evidently fixated upon female troops.

They are a small part of our active Military and do a much better job as professionals than the unkempt undisciplined drug taking unwilling conscripts of previous eras.

112 posted on 02/13/2012 2:51:50 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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