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Pure Republican Evil
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No, but they're all great American patriots who serve(d) their country.
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Are todays volunteers superior to draftees in our History?
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mark h
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This is an open issue in the national election and it is pushed as such....I want your opinions. What are they?
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JMB
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I don't think so. When I served we had both, I found the draftees were much more mature and responsible.
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bailie28
Guest
military people? its always better to be an all volunteer force you still have your bad apples but when you draft people and force them to go in they try everything to go against the rules..who wants that?
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Pure Republican Evil
Guest
No, but they're all great American patriots who serve(d) their country.
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bailie28
Guest
military people? its always better to be an all volunteer force you still have your bad apples but when you draft people and force them to go in they try everything to go against the rules..who wants that?
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Ghost of Tom Joad
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Well officers aren't getting fragged for the most part nowadays, and you don't have half a million AWOL soldiers like you did in Vietnam. I think altogether a volunteer army is a better system if you can afford to implement it.
On the other hand, I would like to see some mandatory volunteer requirement for our nations youth, but I think the US military should only be one option for fulfilling that requirement. So while a draftee force is generally bad for military morale, it is great for American morale in that brings everyone together forces us to understand what it is to be an American in the first place.
On the other hand, I would like to see some mandatory volunteer requirement for our nations youth, but I think the US military should only be one option for fulfilling that requirement. So while a draftee force is generally bad for military morale, it is great for American morale in that brings everyone together forces us to understand what it is to be an American in the first place.
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mailladyrt2
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I cannot say as I have no facts.
But my thoughts are that the draft probably included the brightest and the most physically able who are now going to college and studying and also those playing college and professional sports.
Recruiting is so competitive that standards are relaxed to meet quotas. And I know of kids that have joined the service to get, stay or keep out of trouble.
But my thoughts are that the draft probably included the brightest and the most physically able who are now going to college and studying and also those playing college and professional sports.
Recruiting is so competitive that standards are relaxed to meet quotas. And I know of kids that have joined the service to get, stay or keep out of trouble.
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Quirk
Guest
Probably not, no.
While an all-volunteer force is presumably composed of soldiers who by and large admirably want to be in the military and may even want to make a carrer out of it, they tend to represent only certain cross-sections of the population.
A drafted force contains a wider diversity and IMHO that could well make for a better military. And in many ways could make for better civilians after their service is complete.
While an all-volunteer force is presumably composed of soldiers who by and large admirably want to be in the military and may even want to make a carrer out of it, they tend to represent only certain cross-sections of the population.
A drafted force contains a wider diversity and IMHO that could well make for a better military. And in many ways could make for better civilians after their service is complete.
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Ghost of Tom Joad
Guest
Well officers aren't getting fragged for the most part nowadays, and you don't have half a million AWOL soldiers like you did in Vietnam. I think altogether a volunteer army is a better system if you can afford to implement it.
On the other hand, I would like to see some mandatory volunteer requirement for our nations youth, but I think the US military should only be one option for fulfilling that requirement. So while a draftee force is generally bad for military morale, it is great for American morale in that brings everyone together forces us to understand what it is to be an American in the first place.
On the other hand, I would like to see some mandatory volunteer requirement for our nations youth, but I think the US military should only be one option for fulfilling that requirement. So while a draftee force is generally bad for military morale, it is great for American morale in that brings everyone together forces us to understand what it is to be an American in the first place.