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[nadinbrzezinski]

68. At 18 a kid reports to a center

where their choices would be based on current manpower and woman power needs in national service departments. That said, it cannot be only two years. That is not enough for military service to be worth a damn. By the time you are done training they are done. And the old WW II Bootcamp (which was shortened) does not work in the modern military. So a service of three years would be good.

This gives you time to train these kids in fire service, or military service, or for that matter any medical technical field, or even road work.

People here oppose it because of the abuses of Vietnam, and there were many. Ironically the brass does not want it for the same reason. It was those draftees that made life impossible for the professional soldiers. They were not afraid for their careers.

There is another reason why industry fears a draftee force. You see, it used to be that draftees did things like KP, for pennies. These days that is done by Halliburton. They also used to man supply chains in CONUS, guess who does it these days. That is another reason to have a draftee military, and return al these support services back to the military.

Another way to implement this, which is done in Mexico, is those kids who want to go to college, fine go to college, but a requirement to get your degree is a year of public service. Yup, you finish college and you go do a year as a TA, dentist assistant, what have you. Kids here would scream if they required to do something before joining the workforce, but that helps to set a sense of community.

I do not expect this to happen in this country without a huge culture change though, so this is truly navel gazing. Right now we are living a great culture of me, I and what matters only to myself. Public service would help correct that, but that won't happen.