Reply #119: They can take those too

[MADem]

FROM EXISTING specialities. When someone goes in to be a corpsman, medic, whatever, the military trains 'em. But with a targeted draft, you just go after EMT's. Do a little googling, and you will learn that as part of the proposed DRAFT that they aren't admitting they are thinking about, they will require registrants to fill out, and UPDATE their skills regularly, on a fancy gov't form (we know all about penalties for perjury on those forms, between five to twenty five thousand dollar fine, five to ten in jail...the usual drill).

So, you register for the draft, you go to nursing school, next thing ya know, off ya go. You register for the draft, you study Farsi in college, next thing ya know, off ya go.

They're gonna do this on the cheap, but they are gonna do it unless we bitch mightily. And get the fuck out of the Middle East.

As for combat support, IT guys are not near the battle zone, they are sitting fucking pretty in Kuwait and Qatar, for the most part. A lot of that shit is remote. And a language specialist CAN carry a weapon--primary and secondary MOS--just because you have a talent does not exempt you from going infantry. No rule that all language guys go intel, especially if they are already trained in the language skill. Your forward operating bases are the real iffy places, often the perimeter is not as good as you would like, but in any event, all of your dustups need to be within a GOLDEN HOUR helo ride of an air transportable hospital (they don't call them that anymore, neither do they call them MASH units, but you get the idea).

If there is a rule, any rule, it can be changed. They do it all the time. It is termed FORCE SHAPING, and it is as old as our standing army.