Posted on 02/18/2013 9:11:08 AM PST by jimluke01
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What the heck does that mean? (If it’s something naughty, please be gentle with your explanation for this Boomer grandmother. Thank you.)
In short, Gen. Barrow observed that opening the front lines to, um, “infantrywomen” would not only cost precious American lives, it would ultimately “destroy the Marine Corps.”
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Well, that destruction is the goal of the Soros Administration.
Conservative men should try to enlist, their refusal to serve created a situation where the Army actually had to allow grandmothers in their 40s enlist to help us after 9/11, although our manpower needs were small.
Reagan should be the example, not Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
Free citizens have no duty to service the government. Except in times of major national crisis.
Especially this particular government that refuses to fight the real enemies.
When US troops are on the streets rounding up free citizens I will remember that it is OUR duty, we should be proud of them as they take us to the camps.
I already know the Romney defense for not serving his country.
Patriotic men, conservative men, should be driven to serve in the military, to pull a hitch, to not send their mothers, wives and sisters, and daughters in their place.
This government doesn’t deserve it.
“in their place”. I’m not sending anyone anywhere.
Haiti? polishing bathtub fixtures in Kuwait? Making Kosovo a Muslim country? great service.
If your America doesn’t deserve it, or if you don’t hear the warrior call, then so be it, but you need the protection of those who serve, and since we have a huge population, and a tiny military, and still can’t find enough patriotic men to serve, then they sit in witness as American women and mothers take their place.
IMHO, having every able-bodied male conscripted is impossible. I’ll bet that at any point in time there are at least three million men of draft age. The services couldn’t handle an ocean of new recruits every two months. Where would we get the funds to pay them? How many more basic training centers would we need? This is a non-starter.
Why waste time discussing such a bizarre, non-existent hypothetical as you described?
I was just opining on some other posters’ views. That’s why I said “non starter.”
You and I are on the same team on this issue. Thank God our grandfathers and our fathers knew their duty and were men enough to do it.
I have seen posters do that before, people don’t seem to understand that the draft was just to fill the gaps left by enlistment shortages, and it varied from month to month, or year to year, if they needed 5,000 men then they would go to the man pool and draft the eligible ones instead of advertising for girls and moms to fill the gap.
In 1958 a 142,000 men were drafted to supplement the peacetime military, in 1970 a 163,000 men were drafted to supplement the Vietnam War military.
I believe Elvis Presley was drafted in 1958. A lot of fanfare when he first went in, but from everything I’ve heard or read about it, he was a pretty good soldier, asked for no special treatment.
Yep, Elvis was in the 3rd Armored Division.
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