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What would you do if there was a draft?

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I would...

  • Do nothing and hope that I am not drafted

  • Be excused or exempt for a valid reason

  • Enlist in the hopes of choosing where I end up

  • Dodge the draft

  • Be a conscientious objector

  • There was a draft and I dodged it/objected

  • There was a draft and I was excused/exempt

  • There was a draft and I enlisted

  • It wouldn't matter because I am already enlisted

  • I am from a country that does not have a draft system

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I think I could get out of it because of my vision. So, I would do nothing and if I got drafted, hope that got me excused. If it didn't, no big deal. I think I'd make a pretty good soldier.
 
dfuze said:
Which one?
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Probably this one, it's only ~5 hours away.

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
 
MJinZ said:
Yup, no sense in winning a war when the citizens are all fucked up from losing their parents and shit.
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Actually the way they made it sound the gov didn't want the expense of survivor benefits if anything happened to people with families.
 
loki8481 said:
I'm legally blind in my right eye... not correctable with glasses or surgery. prevents me from joining the military, becoming a cop, and (I assume) being a pilot.
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I have severe kerataconus in my right eye and am probably (I don't know the actual definition) legally blind in that eye. It's more than enough to make me fail a simple physical vision test. While it is theoretically correctable, I've been trying for five years with no results.

Not sure where that would get me.
 
Wyndru said:
Probably this one, it's only ~5 hours away.

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
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But their national anthem is boring. 😉
 
rcpratt said:
I have severe kerataconus in my right eye and am probably (I don't know the actual definition) legally blind in that eye. It's more than enough to make me fail a simple physical vision test. While it is theoretically correctable, I've been trying for five years with no results.

Not sure where that would get me.
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A fucking thermal imager. You got night shift.
 
It depends entirely on the purpose of the draft.

If it's required national service, but not for a specific military engagement, then I'd volunteer anyway (which I did, even though it wasn't).

If it was for a specific military purpose, it would depend entirely on how I felt about that engagement.

If I agree with it, I'll either volunteer or wait to see if I get called, depending on circumstances. Right now I wouldn't end up going, because I'm a sole caregiver and far past any age they'd want anyway, so I'm talking more in general.

If I disagreed with it, then I'd be protesting and trying to end it, and would refuse any service if called up.
 
I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town
I believe in God and Senator Dodd and keeping old Castro down
And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red
But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:

Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen
And I always carry a purse
I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat, and my asthma's
getting worse
O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old invalid aunt
Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to school, and I'm
working in a defense plant

I've got a dislocated disc and a racked up back
I'm allergic to flowers and bugs
And when the bombshell hits, I get epileptic fits
And I'm addicted to a thousand drugs
I got the weakness woes, and I can't touch my toes
I can hardly reach my knees
And if the enemy came close to me
I'd probably start to sneeze


I hate Chou En Lai, and I hope he dies,
but one thing you gotta see
That someone's gotta go over there
and that someone isn't me
So I wish you well, Sarge, give 'em Hell
Yeah, Kill me a thousand or so
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore
Well I'll be the first to go
 
It depends.

If it was a war I believed in (ala WW2 style), I would go. Like if China or Russia invaded the US. I would do whatever they said I would be best at. Which, given my career choice is like going to be Army corp of Engineers, or a regular engineering unit.

Then again, I may eventually go into the Army Corp of Engineers after college.

If it was so we could capture, I mean liberate, more oil then I would join the Coast Guard. If I couldn't get in there, I guess I'd just wait it out then, and hope I didn't get killed.
 
As many have said, it depends on what type of war we are fighting. I'm fairly sure the US would never re-institute the draft for anything like the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. I'd imagine our current all-volunteer army is sufficient for such an action.

At 42, out of shape, father of three, I would expect I'd be pretty far down on the draft list, but in case of a serious war I would volunteer to do whatever I could. If the US was being invaded or there was a similar threat and things were looking bad for us, I would volunteer to do whatever I could, even in my condition. I can still pull a trigger.

Now if I was single, young and healthy, I would be tempted to enlist right away. It's a cliched saying, but Freedom really isn't free.

Disclaimer: It's easy to say I'd volunteer when the decision is hypothetical.
 
I'm too old to worry about a draft anymore...except for the one coming from that open window...but back in the day, I didn't like the way my draft lottery numbers had been running, (very high numbers = low probability of draft) do I dropped out of high school and enlisted.

However, if push came to shove, and the USA was under attack, I'd man up again and offer my services...such as they may be.
 
I would do nothing, I have an RE-3p re-enlistment code and am on a 70% permanent service connected disability from the VA from my time in the Marine Corps.
 
I've tried to enlist in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines and was turned down by all of them because I don't have a titanium plate where my skull was cut open from a brain surgery long ago.

Would that also exempt me from being drafted?
 
IsLNdbOi said:
I've tried to enlist in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines and was turned down by all of them because I don't have a titanium plate where my skull was cut open from a brain surgery long ago.

Would that also exempt me from being drafted?
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Fuck you Iron Man, get your ass on point.

wait. I don't have plate either...
 
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