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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Precisely!
    Such an army is needed in only one country as far as I can tell and that is Israel. The training is needed for more than merely having the experience of being a soldier but for personal defense. I love the photo of three women in bridesmaid gowns carrying automatic rifles.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The draft snapped me up when I got booted out of college for poor grades. (That was mostly due to not knowing what I wanted to do with my life).
    I got out of the service two months later with what the Marines called a "school cut" and I used the GI Bill to get a degree in Journalism (a major that was previously unavailable at the university that took me back). .
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I missed it by that much. Graduating high school in 1970 I was in college with a student deferment. My 1971 lottery number was 177 so when I got graduated odds didn't look good.

    It's left me with a strong impression about the draft.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Involuntary servitude is what I was forced to endure for two years between 1969 - 1971. Keep in mind that for years previous to that I did not feel free with the possibilty of conscription always hanging over my head.
    As I've written in the Gulch before, I did not feel free until a taxi took me out through the gates of a base en route to the airport with an honorable discharge in my baggage..
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 10 months ago
    Either eliminate it (preferred), or include everyone, particularly illegal immigrants!

    This program needs to go...one of many.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't toss your cookies laughing...Because it's the law!

    it's all about control of citizens except by excluding women it's unconstitutional in several ways. The constitution doesn't exempt women from the draft. It only defines the ages for men. It's the old cannon fodder and baby factories mentality.Violates the equal rights amendment big time.especially now we have women going through ranger school. 40 started three it looks like are surviving. Amazon Corps just around the corner.

    You are exactly correct in your remark. Make the soldier worth a hundred or more of the other side instead of taking a hundred or more to account for each one of the other side.

    No MORE Cannon Fodder!
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 10 years, 10 months ago
    This is clearly a candidate for saving money. Why we need a selective service department when no one except a few leftist who dream of drafting rich people want a draft?

    This is not the era of hundreds of thousands of soldiers with rifles. It's the era of technology and trained teams who can work in an environment with civilians all around. The days when we had 'lines' and you could shoot at the people on the other side are gone for the most part.

    A draft is involuntary servitude. For any gender.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You ought to hear the radio ad. Some airhead bimbo saying all of that stuff and ends with... do it for me!
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