Every high school graduate should be required to spend two years in military service. The handicapped and disadvantaged should not be exempt. There are jobs they can do that don't require climbing a rope ladder or jumping out of a plane.
Too many kids leave high school and never find their place in the world. Many who go straight to college are unprepared, unfocused and poorly motivated. The frat world is much more important to them than academia. Speaking of academia - kids with two years of service discipline under their belts would be better prepared to process some of the biased views of professors. Many never go to college, settling for fast food work or clerking at the mall. Then there are the ones who lack any life disciplines and end up "hanging out", doing drugs, committing crimes, etc. They end up hating the system and blaming it for their woes. The discipline of military service would be beneficial to so many of these kids. At least the military will teach them that not all authority figures are there to hold their hands and tell them how special they are. Getting up early, hard work and having others depend on you are very valuable teaching tools! You wouldn't necessarily require all of them to go to war, but you would teach them a trade of some kind. Some would be used in community service, but not for "community organizing". No knocking on doors and asking people what kind of light bulbs they use or how much insulation is in the attic. No more calling out the National Guard for emergencies, or guarding the border, requiring many hard working Americans to miss months of work and income. Train these recruits to do these jobs.
A lot of these tweens are going to end up on assistance anyway. Why not make them spend two years contributing something for the pay? Some will come out just as angry and disturbed as they always were. But, some will thrive under their first experience with discipline and will come out of it ready to enter the work force and raise a family. Some argue that you can make them sign up but you can't make them do the work. Can't you imagine some of the petulant little twerps telling thier NCO "I ain't doin that" or "Do it yourself, MF!"! Some will refuse to cooperate with their supervisors or refuse to sign up at all. That kid would then forfeit any future claims to government benefits. Unless, of course, they start earning a good income, paying regular taxes and contributing to society. Then, if they should fall on hard times, they could make claims based on what they have paid in. In other words, QUIT ENABLING KIDS TO COME OUT OF SCHOOL WITH NO INTENT OF ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING IN THEIR LIVES!
Awfully nice of you to "volunteer" others children for military service!
With all due respect to those who served in our military, there's simply no way in hell I'd ever allow my sons to enter the military after this Obamanation of a President has so screwed up this world. No way I'd ever let them serve to correct OBOZO's mistakes.
Send the liberals in for cannon fodder I say. They voted him in, let them pay the price.
I understand where your coming from. I would agree with everything you said EXCEPT for making it mandatory. The gov. already contorls too much of our lives I don’t see how it’s good letting them force you into the military right after high school. And if this is brought back how many kids will just go to Canada or Europe? Then the military will be left w/ all the poor and welfare kids who didn’t have the means to get out and they usually have lower intelligence.