Mandatory 2 Year Military Service after HS?

[Chunkee]

Think we should have mandatory military service for 2 years after school?

 

[Cuda1447]

NO.

 

[Tab]

Why?

 

[datalink7]

No.

 

[RabidMongoose]

No. I think that it's a ridiculous concept.

 

[azazyel]

service = citizenship

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
No. I think that it's a ridiculous concept.

 

[1EZduzit]

Why should anybody join voluntarily unless their finicial situation forces them to?

IMO, we don't have a large enough military presense to do what needs to be done and to do it right, so I'd say a draft is in order.

I would go one step farther and say we should pay those we already have in the military better in an effort to keep them and their training working to keep us safe.

 

[cKGunslinger]

It's an interesting idea, no doubt, but flies in the very face of our freedoms.

Starship Troopers is actually a very interesting book, as it actually explores this notion a great deal more than the fun, yet intellectually void, movie of the same title.

 

[imported_tss4]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
It's an interesting idea, no doubt, but flies in the very face of our freedoms.

Starship Troopers is actually a very interesting book, as it actually explores this notion a great deal more than the fun, yet intellectually void, movie of the same title.

so it was a good book? Cause the movie kind of stank.

 

[Chunkee]

It is only two years. The skills learned and discipline, not to mention the extensive military reserve you would have available. Skilled and trained.

I think it would also help in the real world as well. Looking back on it, I should have done ROTC in college.

jC

 

[cwjerome]

Horrible idea. Worst than the Draft, in fact.

Chunkee's pragmatic reasoning obliterates principles... as pragmatic thinking often does.

 

[umbrella39]

NO. Service should be voluntary unless the a draft is needed.

 

[jpeyton]

Only if we wanted to breed a nation of retards.

 

[azazyel]

Originally posted by: tss4

so it was a good book? Cause the movie kind of stank.

BLASPHEME!! (and yes it is a good book) Also, can you find a movie that has more boobs, beheadings, loss of limbs, spaceships and big bugs? Didn't think so.

 

[CaptnKirk]

Doesn't Israel have a mandatory Military service commitment ?

 

[RabidMongoose]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Doesn't Israel have a mandatory Military service commitment ?

Plenty of other countries have some sort of mandatory military or civil commitment.

 

[cwjerome]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Only if we wanted to breed a nation of retards.

Your anti-military (and yes, anti-American) mental spasms are already well known here. Yet somehow your insults are still unsettling.

 

[Todd33]

I voted no, it should be 1 year of national service and the military should be one of the options (not that the individual can choose, rich people in Iraq ftw!).

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: tss4

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
It's an interesting idea, no doubt, but flies in the very face of our freedoms.

Starship Troopers is actually a very interesting book, as it actually explores this notion a great deal more than the fun, yet intellectually void, movie of the same title.

so it was a good book? Cause the movie kind of stank.

It's a Heinlein book, so you know it's pretty decent. The book focuses on morality, ethics, civic duty, etc, with a war against some bugs as the backdrop. The movie, of course, is about war against some bugs, with some (minor) touches of philosophy and politics in the far, far background. Pick up the book, it's pretty good.

Would you like to know more?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Many other nations do it.

Would be a good chance to get America's spoiled brats off their asses and learn some respect, discipline, etc.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I think manditory military service is not what's needed. What would be better IMO is a period of service where people would be trained in emergency situations, and if needed could be called upon and a shovel thrust in their hands to dig out places like NO.

That's a better use if you ask me.

 

[BDawg]

I think there should be mandatory government service for everyone under the age of... (checks birthdate) 29.

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: cwjerome
Horrible idea. Worst than the Draft, in fact.

Chunkee's pragmatic reasoning obliterates principles... as pragmatic thinking often does.

Perhaps you should join all the "non-pragmatic" lazy welfare recipients and enjoy provisions that you do not earn nor respect.

Principles my arse..your argument is fetid and riddled with left winger pretexts.

jC

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Many other nations do it.

Would be a good chance to get America's spoiled brats off their asses and learn some respect, discipline, etc.

QFT!