Bring back the draft

[lennypartiv]

The House of Representatives is heading in the right direction. Make those lazy youngsters go through boot camp. It's a shame something like this is necessary to make them love America.

---House passes defense bill automatically registering men 18-26 for draft---

House passes defense bill automatically registering men 18-26 for draft

The House of Representatives passed their annual defense policy bill with a provision to automatically enroll draft-eligible males in the selective service.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Oddball]

Indentured servitude for the military-industrial complex!

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Yeah **** that.

Right in its giant, disgusting war machine visage.

 

[candycorn]

The House of Representatives is heading in the right direction. Make those lazy youngsters go through boot camp. It's a shame something like this is necessary to make them love America.

---House passes defense bill automatically registering men 18-26 for draft---

House passes defense bill automatically registering men 18-26 for draft

The House of Representatives passed their annual defense policy bill with a provision to automatically enroll draft-eligible males in the selective service.

www.foxnews.com

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Oh look.

A Lefty communist who likes the idea of sending our youth to die in the War Machine grinder.

I'm ******* shocked.

 

[Dragonlady]

The party that didn't want to be mandated to get a vaccine, is now mandating 2 years of involuntary military service?

This oughtta be good.

 

[lennypartiv]

The party that didn't want to be mandated to get a vaccine, is now mandating 2 years of involuntary military service?

This oughtta be good.

Look at our pathetic youth who only has the skills to play video games.

 

[candycorn]

The party that didn't want to be mandated to get a vaccine, is now mandating 2 years of involuntary military service?

This oughtta be good.

This will be the shortest thread in the history of USMB. The OP doesn't have the stones to argue with his fellow neanderthals.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

This will be the shortest thread in the history of USMB. The OP doesn't have the stones to argue with his fellow neanderthals.

In all seriousness (for a moment) - my preliminary understanding is that a plurality of Republicans voted against this - but the slim majority allowed Democrats to skew the vote.

 

[DGS49]

Registration is not the draft. It is paperwork, intended to make yoots think they have a vested interest in their country. I doubt that it will happen. Women should also have to sign up. Every woman would make another man available for real soldiering.

What percentage of today's yoots would even be eligible to serve...intellectually, physically, drug free, emotionally? I hesitate even to guess.

 

[Greenbeard]

In all seriousness (for a moment) - my preliminary understanding is that a plurality of Republicans voted against this - but the slim majority allowed Democrats to skew the vote.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Then it's obviously not being accurately depicted.

No way in hell the 2024 GOP votes for a modern day DRAFT.

Read DGS49's post.

 

[Greenbeard]

Then it's obviously not being accurately depicted.

No way in hell the 2024 GOP votes for a modern day DRAFT.

Read DGS49's post.

Roll Call 279 Roll Call 279, Bill Number: H. R. 8070, 118th Congress, 2nd Session

VOTE QUESTION: On Passage, DESCRIPTION: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, VOTE TYPE: Recorded Vote, STATUS: Passed

clerk.house.gov

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Roll Call 279 Roll Call 279, Bill Number: H. R. 8070, 118th Congress, 2nd Session

VOTE QUESTION: On Passage, DESCRIPTION: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, VOTE TYPE: Recorded Vote, STATUS: Passed

clerk.house.gov

Thanks for confirming my suspicion.

 

[Oddball]

Registration is not the draft. It is paperwork, intended to make yoots think they have a vested interest in their country. I doubt that it will happen. Women should also have to sign up. Every woman would make another man available for real soldiering.

What percentage of today's yoots would even be eligible to serve...intellectually, physically, drug free, emotionally? I hesitate even to guess.

Don't care.

We're not chattel property of The State, to be registered, numbered, and stuffed into bureaucrat files.

 

[Sunni Man]

If you tried to draft people today there would be protests and riots in the streets.

 

[candycorn]

Well, if you were to look at the topic through an apolitical lens, there is some merit to the idea of a compulsory national service plan. If the kids of those who voted to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan were on the front lines, perhaps some of those votes would have gone a different way.

What would make more sense is to expand the geometry of the plan. I would seriously doubt that the current crop of splendid volunteer soldiers would feel great about someone who is forced to be there, doesn't want to be there, doesn't take it seriously being next to them in a firefight. In fact, it would likely weaken the unit, lower morale, and result in more deaths. So why not keep that unit--the finest in the world by any measure--intact. Make the offer this: You spend six weeks at an army or navy base learning weapons, basic tactics, terminology (what a platoon, company, battalion, etc... is--I admit I don't know precisely) etc... Get exposed to what gunfire sounds like; wound care, some survival fundamentals.

Would it really hurt that much?

 

[Kondor3]

Indentured servitude for the military-industrial complex!

Honorable service to the Republic... with everybody doing their fair share and everybody sharing the risks in our defense.

There are a lot of bad guys out there and defending ourselves on a global scale sometimes requires more than volunteers.

 

[Oddball]

Honorable service to the Republic... with everybody doing their fair share and everybody sharing the risks in our defense.

At gunpoint, if necessary.

 

[Sunni Man]

I was drafted during the Vietnam war.
None of us draftees were happy about it.
But many of our fathers and uncles had served in WWll and the Korean war. So we sucked it up and did our two years of service.
I can't imagine that happening today.