Mushroom
Gold Member
Actually, I have no real problem with this, as long as military service is not mandated.
To put it bluntly, a great many people in this country are either not eligable to serve in the military, nor should they be allowed or forced to do so. I think that any time I see some 350 pound piece of blubber buying the newest X-box game, or some kid walking out of a pot clinic with his weekly dose of happy weed. Putting these people in the military would kill them, or get them kicked out with a permanent bad record.
However, I do support the idea of National Service. Spend 2 years doing things like working for the Park Service, building fire breaks, even picking up trash on the side of our highways or staffing FEMA facilities after a disaster. Going into inner cities to remove grafiti and create-improve playgrounds. There are lots of things like this that can be done to help the Country, that do not require being in the military to do.
And it should be 100% mandatory, no exemptions other then the obvious (serious permanent physical restrictions, mental capacity, etc). For people that have obvious commitments (college for example), just break it up. Instead of 2 years straight, 3-6 month periods of service until the commitment is met.
I actually do believe in such a system, and anybody who has read the book Starship Troopers (not watched the movie) should have an idea how it can work.
To put it bluntly, a great many people in this country are either not eligable to serve in the military, nor should they be allowed or forced to do so. I think that any time I see some 350 pound piece of blubber buying the newest X-box game, or some kid walking out of a pot clinic with his weekly dose of happy weed. Putting these people in the military would kill them, or get them kicked out with a permanent bad record.
However, I do support the idea of National Service. Spend 2 years doing things like working for the Park Service, building fire breaks, even picking up trash on the side of our highways or staffing FEMA facilities after a disaster. Going into inner cities to remove grafiti and create-improve playgrounds. There are lots of things like this that can be done to help the Country, that do not require being in the military to do.
And it should be 100% mandatory, no exemptions other then the obvious (serious permanent physical restrictions, mental capacity, etc). For people that have obvious commitments (college for example), just break it up. Instead of 2 years straight, 3-6 month periods of service until the commitment is met.
I actually do believe in such a system, and anybody who has read the book Starship Troopers (not watched the movie) should have an idea how it can work.