Trump World Reportedly Flirts With a Return to Mandatory Military Service

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5. This would be a good way to destroy the professional military we have now.

The end of the draft meant that it was possible over time to civilian-ise a lot of the jobs that weren’t related to a service member’s military specialty like KP, base maintenance and a whole bunch of other functions that took time away from training for their actual jobs and things that would keep them alive in combat. The last thing the military wants is to have to babysit a bunch of draftees who don’t want to be there.

I suppose you make a completely separate force structure just for draftees with the option for those who enjoy the experience to transfer to the regular military but then what use would this force be and how much would it cost.

There are over 3 1/2 million high school graduates every year against an active duty military, all five (six including the Coast Guard) branches, of around 1 1/4 million. This would end like it always has with a draft lottery where the rich kids get multiple deferments for bone spurs and the poor and minority kids get selected. Let’s face it, that’s really the point of the exercise for the GOP.