No more US all volunteer military?

[Kuiper7986]

The US as you know has an all voluntary military. But when a male turns 18 and is a US citizen he must do selective service (which is give all your info to the military). This will be used incase of a national crisis or wartime. Of course right now they say they don\'t need it but because of the ongoing conflict, they might one day call people to go.

I have asthma, maybe I\'ll be exempt BUT if I\'m not all I ask is...

If get am put as an infantryman, that I get free inhaler medication (lots of it), a working flak jacket, a rifle that works, plenty of ammunition...

If I get put as indirect fire I\'d wanna be part of a mortar squad...

If I\'m on a naval vessel, I\'d wanna be on an aircraft carrier or an Aegis Cruiser...

If I\'m in the air I\'d wanna be part of a B52 crew...


This is all considering they let me go where I want, which they probably won\'t...

Any other countries have a mandatory draft or something like the selective service system like here in the US?

[Harkin]

The Selective Service isn\'t a mandatroy draft, its in place so that once you hit 18, the government has your information incase a draft ever comes back... it is not a draft... and its not likely that the US will have any draft anytime soon.

[Keknehv]

I actually read an interesting article on why there probably won\'t be a draft in the US anytime soon...

Basically, if there was a draft, and it was done selectively to the men, then someone would complain that it was being \"selective\" and that women should be included too.

And if it was done to everyone, then women would be included.

Of course, not too many people would likely be happy about having their daughters/wives, etc. drafted into the military...

[Zorium]

While when men are drafted the women don\'t care?

-Zorium

[Efflixi Aduro]

Well if oman got drafted men would speak up and if they idnt woman wouldspeak up.

I say if woman wanna get into the army go sign up! And dont give the goverment that \"selective\" sh**

[DepthBlade]

*Kisses his Canadian flag and stares at Kuiper*

You can always run here !

[Bjorn]

Originally posted by DepthBlade
*Kisses his Canadian flag and stares at Kuiper*

You can always run here !

I am Canadian!
Go Canada!
Uhh... This is getting off-topic now. Umm, I don\'t think they\'d let you into an aircraft without proper training...

[Harkin]

on a side note: no one has to do selective service... you just lose their benefits, whatever they are...

[snow_RAveN]

Well here in Singapore we got a manadatory national service where every male aged 18 gets sent to the military for 2 and a 1/2 years to learn how much you can drink before you get drunk, handle a rifle, unarmed combat, trade \"tips and postions\" and other fun and not-so-fun military stuff.
Sure it sounds unfair but you get paid in the army and after the 1st 3 months or so life gets easy, unless you get posted to the special forces + you get more pay in goverment jobs after you finnish, and getting buff ain\'t a bad thing.

[Melbourne]

Originally posted by Harkin
on a side note: no one has to do selective service... you just lose their benefits, whatever they are...

One of those would be financial aid, which if you didn\'t need any, then you would be able to buy your way out of the army anyway.

[leji]

France rulez :]
We now have a totally professional army, if you dont sign in, you sont fight !
Of course if the german want to invade us once again (but i\'m sure they got bored with it) everybody can take a kitchen knife and fight them...

[Xordan]

Originally posted by leji
We now have a totally professional army, if you dont sign in, you sont fight !

And if you do sign, you only have to fight for 5 min before surrendering!

Originally posted by leji Of course if the german want to invade us once again (but i\'m sure they got bored with it) everybody can take a kitchen knife and fight them...

... for 5 minutes, then you\'ll all give up and wait for the rest of the world to save your country

[Psycon]

In my country military service is still mandatory. 6 months to loose in your life. I really hope the politicians will change that but till then....

if I ever go into active military service I\'d like to sit on a chair and take care of a pretty red button with warning signs all over it.

But if I get drafted either the aliens invaded Earth or  the only ones living after a year would be the ones who pushed the button.

[Olig]

I\'m planning on going into the navy, they have some awesome benefits (or so they say <.<    >.>), including a promise to pay off all my student loans. I\'ll need to get that one in writing.

Bush would not want a draft, it would hurt his reputation too much. Plus, a draft would never make it through congress unless this war heated up into world war III. Don\'t worry about it.

[Zorium]

And if you do sign, you only have to fight for 5 min before surrendering!

Thats Italy, the French continue you to hit you with bagettes after they have surrendered.

-Zorium