[jrd]

heck make everyone serve three years starting when they get out of high school no exceptions ...then all the politicians will have had to defend this country

[kabar]

There are too many people to have everyone serve in the military for three years after graduatiog from high school. How big a military do you want? There are 11 million males age 15-19. Assuming there are about 3 million males reaching 18 each year wth say 2 million being able to serve physically and mentally, how would we be able to absorb and afford so many people in the military.

And would you draft women?

[Tublecane]

“then all the politicians will have to defend thus country”

I’m not sure what proportion of the armed forces now can honestly be said to directly defend the country, but certainly that ratio would suffer by bloating the services to such a ridiculous size. Mostly future politicians would get practice being bureaucrats.

[stylin19a]

heck make everyone serve three years starting when they get out of high school no exceptions

and they get to keep their weapons after they get out.