Gyp Rosetti
Banned
Can anyone here please educate me/us as to why it ended in '73?
Also, does anyone see a situation in which it's ever reinstated?
Thoughts?
Also, does anyone see a situation in which it's ever reinstated?
Thoughts?
The Draft/Mandatory Conscription
- Thread starter Gyp Rosetti
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I am completely opposed to any type of forced military service. Individuals are not the property of their government to be put to use and "spent" as it sees fit. Besides that it makes for a pretty lousy fighting force compared to an all volunteer force.
Hantlers
Well-Known Member
Spoken like a true fat man.
Agreed.
Although, there is a part of me that wishes I would've been forced. So much good comes from service, as I'm sure you know.
aybars
Well-Known Member
i have dual citizenship,,u know whats the funny thing? both countries have Mandatory military service
,so i had to pick oneI was somewhere in line when it ended, though both the army and airforce actually turned me down for physical issues. I believe it was becoming a choice of how to go get all the kids who had gone to Canada, and people were generally pissed and opposed to the war.
Gyp Rosetti
Banned
If you don't graduate high school or drop out or are kicked out and have not later gotten your GED (and have not gained some sort of employment?) by 20 (21?), there is mandatory conscription. Might that help graduation rates, discipline in schools, and teenagers thinking more like adults with real life consequences rather than ones who worry about COD? Might that give those who do drop out or are expelled some sort of direction in life? I'm just spitballing. Keep in mind I am by no means some Patriotic dude. I just think there's a lot of good that can come from service both for the individual and for our country as a whole.
PearlWatson
Well-Known Member
It might cut out the entitlement mentality, where kids want the government to give to them but don't feel they have any responsibility to contribute.
What are you trying to say here?
If the U.S. itself were ligitimately threatened you wouldn't need to draft people. If a nation exists for the benefit of free people then free people have an interest in protecting it. Only when a nation is not free or does not support the best interests of it's people does it need to force people to fight in it's defense. Now, compelling people to engage in conquests of other nations/people is a different ballgame and not something a free nation and/or people should be doing in the first place.
Ask the middle east countries about how lousy the Israeli army is. It is mandatory to serve for the Israeli state after all.
I truly believe that if the US were invaded people would flock to the military recruitment center. See WWII. Conscription typically becomes necessary only when invading other countries. See land wars in Asia.
I agree.
Also as far as a forced conscription what if it was not only military service. What if other forms of service came into play?
Then post a help wanted sign and take applications.
trigg3r
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I couldn't agree more. It is against everything we believe in to have the government force somebody to possibly go off to war. I find that it is also in the worst interest of the government to have soldiers in their military who don't want to be there. I would rather people just volunteer. If you are a pacifist then I urge you search out some other volunteer work that you can do to help your country. But again, if you decide to not do that either, then that is your right.
We had a highly isolationist mentality following WWI, but Americans joined when they fealt it was necessary. If we have to draft Americans to fight for their families then the war is not a good idea in the first place.
Hantlers
Well-Known Member
I thought that was pretty obvious. I'm calling you fat.