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To: allmendream
The universal contempt of professional soldiers for conscript soldier was my topic,

That is your claim, I'm starting to think that you get all your information about draftees second hand.

You should honor at least those draftees in the Continental army and the Indian wars which gave you this nation, and females are currently close to 20% of the military already, and heading to at least 50%

Something that is a little scary, is that in your mind, you seem to think that a 19 year old man who was drafted, was immune to becoming a true soldier during basic training and AIT, or Jump School, or Marine boot , you even seem to think that somehow they were immune to normal military discipline

I served during the draft, I just didn't see all that stuff you seemed to have witnessed, or heard about from the kind of guys that would spend time with you telling you sea stories.

Do you honestly think that you could have spotted the drafted Marines?

113 posted on 02/13/2012 3:07:50 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12
already told you I saw the German army (conscripts) in action. Overweight unshaven guys in uniforms that looked like duffel bags waving me through the gate without even looking at my ID card “Dais ist gut”, and talk of them catching their officers out of uniform and beating them up.

Just because you can beat discipline into an unwilling participant doesn't mean you have the Constitutional right to do so.

Morale and discipline was and is much lower among conscripts and militaries that force conscription.

We need professional soldiers who are patriots and serve willingly.

We don't need, nor does the Military want, conscripts.

Serving alongside rejects whose only choices in life were Military or Prison may seem like a respected place in society to you - to me it makes Military service one step above imprisonment as a vocation.

Do you believe in a government of limited and enumerated powers?

115 posted on 02/13/2012 3:25:29 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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