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Bring back the Draft?

Secundulus

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Which brings up a question...if they did bring back the draft...would it include women now?
What possible justification is there for not including women in the draft in this modern culture. Equality = Equality.
 
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i beg to disagree! some of us whiny libertarian conservatives would complain as well!

TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT ALREADY! no thanks on the draft!:preach:

QFT, and a big libertarian :amen:


Having a draft is contrary to the principles America was founded on! In times of dire national emergency (such as the Civil War and WW II), I'll put up with it because survival comes first, but it's still a Bad Thing.
 
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What possible justification is there for not including women in the draft in this modern culture. Equality = Equality.

Someone has to be at home for children. I'm thinking for parents to decided to both join the military and leave their children is a bad enough decision...to have the Gov draft both mom and dad would be horrible.

In that situation...what would they do...flip a coin to see who goes...mom or dad?

Pretty easy to see how easily things get messy when we step outside what God intended our rolls as men and women to be.
 
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No, no need to bring back the draft. This is supposed to be a free country.

However, for colleges and universities and other entities that tolerate harassment of recruiters, I say cut off the federal funding.

:thumbsup:
 
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No, no need to bring back the draft. This is supposed to be a free country.

However, for colleges and universities and other entities that tolerate harassment of recruiters, I say cut off the federal funding.

As a military recuiter myself I can attest to this. Places of learning reluctantly tolerate our presence only due to not receiving certain federal funding if they don't. This is especially true in high schools. The counselors get credit for having more students get accepted to colleges. They don't get any points for enlisting into the military. But like I said, if they don't let us in, they don't get money.

The same is not true for colleges, that I'm aware of (but I might just be ignorant of that). They'll have job fairs and stuff, and we can go to that. But just hanging around and what not is looked down upon.

Really, the only places where I find real acceptance as a recuiter are gas stations, fast food restaurants, and smaller, non-corporate, privately owned businesses. Most businesses consider us to be soliciters and kick us out after a little while, unless we're buying something.

Sometimes when my efforts fail due to being kicked out of somewhere, I think to myself "You know, I HOPE that someone attacks us and there aren't enough people to fend them off, and you say 'If only I'd have let that recruiter into my store!'"
 
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The Soldier is a Noble profession, it has shaped who I am as a Man, and just my personal opinion but every Man should serve a stint in Military Service, primarily in the Combat Arms field if possible.
I think that'd be a fine thing, and that it'd be good for many women too, but "ought to" and "should be compelled to" are two different things.
 
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I heard an argument about bringing back
drafting since Universities were harrassing military recruiters
from recruiting.

Would it stop problems with people taking the Country for granted?
Or is it wrong? I'm not sure about it....

:scratch:
I am a Gideon (the Bible people) and we distribute Scriptures in Army bases.
A camoufaged colored New testament with Psalms and Proverbs is offered to each new recruit.
During the last year distributions went up about 30%.

People apparently are volunteering without needing to be drafted.

Thanks, :)
Ed
 
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I am a Gideon (the Bible people) and we distribute Scriptures in Army bases.
A camoufaged colored New testament with Psalms and Proverbs is offered to each new recruit.
During the last year distributions went up about 30%.
Then I want to thank you personally. I picked up one of those out of the bookrack in my office building at Ft. Benning not long ago and now carry it around with me in my jacket pocket. It is the perfect size.
 
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There were many draftees on the bus with me back during the Nam war period that hated the thought of being drafted. Some lied and stated they were homosexual hoping to evade service. Another guy had placed a shotgun barrel parallel to his ear the night before screening and fired multiple times in order to render him temporarily deaf in that ear so he wouldn't pass the screening process. It was common.

Compulsory draft is far inferior for quality of service personel IMO.
 
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I'm all for the draft if the situation calls for it. But then again, I'm too militaristic....

If the situation calls for it yes. Just sayin the all volunteer force is a better way to go if "possible".
 
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There were many draftees on the bus with me back during the Nam war period that hated the thought of being drafted. Some lied and stated they were homosexual hoping to evade service. Another guy had placed a shotgun barrel parallel to his ear the night before screening and fired multiple times in order to render him temporarily deaf in that ear so he wouldn't pass the screening process. It was common.

Compulsory draft is far inferior for quality of service personel IMO.

I should add these guys were not unpatriotic. Every day there were body counts on TV of the dead and wounded. At best there was a 50/50 chance anyone going over there would be killed or wounded.

Not the same as a peace time draft.
 
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Another guy had placed a shotgun barrel parallel to his ear the night before screening and fired multiple times in order to render him temporarily deaf in that ear so he wouldn't pass the screening process. It was common.

I wouldn't call it "common". And if you care to consult with a trained audiologist, you'll find that multiple shotgun blasts right next to the ear would render someone PERMANENTLY deaf in virtually all cases.

Though I don't endorse either method, I believe pretending to be gay would be the more common sense approach. ;)
 
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