As a Soldier, I have spent the best part of a decade constantly striving to be a better and more professional Soldier. I have, throughout this time been surrounded by those like myself.
For most of us, Soldiering is more than just a job where you get to play with automatic weapons in other countries now and then.
It is a way of life.
We take comfort, in when looking to our left and right, we see others with that same level of commitment. (the fakes weed themselves out)
That male or female is here just as I, because they walked into a recruiter's office and said "This is what I WANT to do." Even with the expressed and implied risks.
I'm sorry, but with deepest respect for the draftee armies that have served with distinction and nobility in the past, a draft would reduce my confidence in those around me.
I'm a professional, I want professionals around me.
For me it's less about the concept of a draft itself, and more a "no confidence" vote on the caliber of people we would end up putting in the ranks as a result.
To be fair, there are some great young people out there who would (and do) step up and make fine Soldiers......But there are a whole hell of a lot of spoiled, undiciplined, self centered youngsters who hold no authority higher than themselves, who would wind up in un...
For most of us, Soldiering is more than just a job where you get to play with automatic weapons in other countries now and then.
It is a way of life.
We take comfort, in when looking to our left and right, we see others with that same level of commitment. (the fakes weed themselves out)
That male or female is here just as I, because they walked into a recruiter's office and said "This is what I WANT to do." Even with the expressed and implied risks.
I'm sorry, but with deepest respect for the draftee armies that have served with distinction and nobility in the past, a draft would reduce my confidence in those around me.
I'm a professional, I want professionals around me.
For me it's less about the concept of a draft itself, and more a "no confidence" vote on the caliber of people we would end up putting in the ranks as a result.
To be fair, there are some great young people out there who would (and do) step up and make fine Soldiers......But there are a whole hell of a lot of spoiled, undiciplined, self centered youngsters who hold no authority higher than themselves, who would wind up in un...
As a Soldier, I have spent the best part of a decade constantly striving to be a better and more professional Soldier. I have, throughout this time been surrounded by those like myself.
For most of us, Soldiering is more than just a job where you get to play with automatic weapons in other countries now and then.
It is a way of life.
We take comfort, in when looking to our left and right, we see others with that same level of commitment. (the fakes weed themselves out)
That male or female is here just as I, because they walked into a recruiter's office and said "This is what I WANT to do." Even with the expressed and implied risks.
I'm sorry, but with deepest respect for the draftee armies that have served with distinction and nobility in the past, a draft would reduce my confidence in those around me.
I'm a professional, I want professionals around me.
For me it's less about the concept of a draft itself, and more a "no confidence" vote on the caliber of people we would end up putting in the ranks as a result.
To be fair, there are some great young people out there who would (and do) step up and make fine Soldiers......But there are a whole hell of a lot of spoiled, undiciplined, self centered youngsters who hold no authority higher than themselves, who would wind up in uniform. And the military IS the sort of place where "one bad apple" can have a VERY detrimental impact.
Hitler.......Hitler, or another like him is a fine reason to have a draft.
"Diversity" is not.
We are already about as diverse as it gets. We are people from ALL walks of life, religions, ethnicities, backgrounds, philosophies, and points of the compass.
So for every left handed Eskimo put into service for the sake of diversity that made a great Soldier, we would wind up with 20 who didn't want to be there.
And if they don't want to be here, then I don't want them here either.
-Doc J
"Steel Medic One"
Fires Sqadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment
(more)For most of us, Soldiering is more than just a job where you get to play with automatic weapons in other countries now and then.
It is a way of life.
We take comfort, in when looking to our left and right, we see others with that same level of commitment. (the fakes weed themselves out)
That male or female is here just as I, because they walked into a recruiter's office and said "This is what I WANT to do." Even with the expressed and implied risks.
I'm sorry, but with deepest respect for the draftee armies that have served with distinction and nobility in the past, a draft would reduce my confidence in those around me.
I'm a professional, I want professionals around me.
For me it's less about the concept of a draft itself, and more a "no confidence" vote on the caliber of people we would end up putting in the ranks as a result.
To be fair, there are some great young people out there who would (and do) step up and make fine Soldiers......But there are a whole hell of a lot of spoiled, undiciplined, self centered youngsters who hold no authority higher than themselves, who would wind up in uniform. And the military IS the sort of place where "one bad apple" can have a VERY detrimental impact.
Hitler.......Hitler, or another like him is a fine reason to have a draft.
"Diversity" is not.
We are already about as diverse as it gets. We are people from ALL walks of life, religions, ethnicities, backgrounds, philosophies, and points of the compass.
So for every left handed Eskimo put into service for the sake of diversity that made a great Soldier, we would wind up with 20 who didn't want to be there.
And if they don't want to be here, then I don't want them here either.
-Doc J
"Steel Medic One"
Fires Sqadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment
If it is civil services they require they can publish job postings in the local want ads or on television and hire legitimately, there are plenty of unemployed people who would love some of the military benefit and a steady career. It would bolster the economy.
But seeing as how you went in in 1996 and there was no draft, I "assume" you did not work with draftees. Correct? I DID and found that when it came to getting a job done there was no real difference. Draftees did complain more but they still did their duty. Come to think of it, even many of us enlistees had worse attitudes than many draftees.
You can say "Yes" and then use this statement to qualify it??? Wow!! Then go on to say "It would be a very good idea if we would start minding our own business --". Another Wow! Of course we should mind our own business!! Then there would be no need for dumb statements like your first one. Are you familiar with the 13th. Amendment? A draft is involuntary servitude.
Anybody who supports a particular war should be required to go help fight it.
How's that?
I was part of the last draft in 1965. Did not know as much about the Constitution then as I do now. (Thanks to "public" schools that do not "teach" it.)
Americans have always been ready to go in harms way if the cause is Just. We have not had a Just "war" since 1945. The last war to be Constitutionally declared by Congress.
register for the draft,
they don't need it while they have the boor door draft known as poverty.
Army is the easiest job to get, hardest to quit and demoralizes men to the point of submission, making perfect little citizens out of those who survive...
No drafting, because if I'm drafted I'll kill everybody, plus say if you drafted a juvenile delinquent you'll just be teaching him how to kill the wrong people and make everyone a target.
As far as exceptions, the VAST majority of those exceptions would be for politicians and their children, just like it has always been. Congress exempts themselves from the same laws they make for We The People. What makes you think a draft would be any different?
Sure, pols would try to get around it. IF Congress wrote a decent law, that wouldn't be a problem. I think we should have a universal draft. Agree, disagree, you're entitled.
Ps: When was the last time Congress wrote a descent law? You know, One that pertained to them as well as We The People!
AMENDMENT XIII (1865)
SECTION 1. "Neither slavery nor INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (emphasis added)
Americans have already shown that they will come to the aid of their country when needed. We have more than enough volunteers for that purpose.
The way our government is today this will just be another way to get more young people out of this country to force our will on others and lessen our ability to protect America from the biggest DOMESTIC enemy we face, that being our own federal government.