The letter started out cheerily enough... "Greetings," it said. But from 1969 to 1973, the dreaded draft notice letter, the "Order to Report for Induction," was a ticket to a jungle in Vietnam. But since 1973, the U.S. military has been committed to maintaining an all volunteer force and fought three major wars without needing a draft. While registering for the draft is still a law, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is asking the Department of Defense to reevaluate its continued need for the Selective Service System and the draft. [Learn more...]
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Do not know for certain if we need a draft. Can say for certain that if we had a draft we would not be invading countries like Iraq on a presidential whim. Were the offspring of congress critters and their corporate masters subject to serving, we would be much more circumspect regarding our use of force.
ABSOLUTELY ! We have spawned a generation of lazy, unpatriotic
unappreciative louts ! Every male (perhaps female too) should be required to serve a hitch in the Military. As far as the illiterate school dropouts are concerned – teach them to read and write in the Army – with KP as the punishment for not doing homework ! That’ll fix’em !
@Raccman — But on the other hand… forced military service would represent little more than (expensive) taxpayer-funded day care for the “generation of lazy, unpatriotic unappreciative louts.” Taxpayers pay the military to prepare for and fight wars, not to teach reading. Personally, I don’t want a bunch of lazy, unpatriotic unappreciative louts protecting my freedom.
Robert Longley