This doesn't fit the agenda

[deljzc]

I do not think we need a draft. A draft is only needed in a major war that has high casualties.

What is needed is quality. The Air Force ( Brightest of the group, with the hardest entry test ), Marines, and Navy are top notch. The Army is just so-so

I'd like to see the Army have a special recuritment program for young people who are bright, physically capable, and willing to offer 5-year commitments. Say an extra 50,000 people. As it stand now, the Army accepts too many reject types.

In return, pay these A-list types more than the typical enlistee makes, give them better benefits by offering them a higher initial rank( Private first class or specialists ), and offer free education ( College ) or an apprenticeship on a vocation of their choice after their tour is over.

Currently, the USA has about 500,000 active soldiers, but most of them are support based.

https://www.army.mil/symbols/armyranks.html

Conscription is different than a draft. Conscription is mandatory service by all able body youth in the military. Israel has it. Switzerland has it. A couple other have it as well.

It would be a 12-18 month requirement which would include 8-12 weeks of basic training. You train to be that support staff and National Guard type duties.

A "professional soldier" would morph into something completely different than today. You would get much higher pay, be expected to enlist for longer time frame, basic training would be longer and you most certainly would NOT be support staff and instead concentrate on front line/war issues. You would also get access to the long-term benefits of being a veteran (the conscripts would not).

It's worth discussing in my opinion.

 

[deljzc]

There are approximately 30 million individuals ages 18-25 in this country. If 12 month service is required and figuring 90% "able bodied", that's almost 4 million added to our U.S. Military as "support staff" and National Guard.

I would expect "professional soldiering" to decrees to about 350k to 400k.

It would take a lot of money, a lot of infrastructure and a major overhaul of our armed forces and what they do to take advantage of this type of workforce but I think some good for the country and for the populace might happen if we decide on it.

 

[Spike]

Another one of Barry's kids


Young boy flipping off cop - just like his dad taught him

According to WGGB News, the unnamed boy was taught by his father to give “the bird” to cops, and he did just that when he saw a police cruiser in Springfield, Massachusetts

http://www.westernmassnews.com/stor...e-of-boy-giving-vulgar-gesture-toward-cruiser

 

[Stewey]

Why is it a surprise blacks get roughed up more?...blacks resist arrest at a rate 8 times greater than whites. .

Black privilege plays a part too.
They can cry about being a victim of racial profiling, therefore feel entitled to resist arrest...white folks cant do that.

Heard an awesome stat from Medved today.
Less that 4% of blacks were brought to the U.S as slaves, Many more went to South America in places such as Brazil. Many more enslaved by Muslims.

With that in mind, from the United States of America you can name hundreds of great black thinkers, statesmen, inventors, poets going back to Phylis Wheatley to Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, WEB Dubois, George Washington Carver, Scott Jolplin, Louis Armstrong,....

Name one from Brazil? Was Bob Marley from Brazil? Pele?

The point is...America has brought out the best in black people like no other country ever has.

**** you blacks that continue to whine about the deck being stacked against you and racism. I'll buy one of you a one way ticket to Africa if you like.

 

[IndySteel]

Name one from Brazil?
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Pele

 

[Stewey]

Pele

Haha...I thought of him and while I was editing you posted..