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Thanks for your service. Let us hope there will always be enough volunteers to keep America safe.
Political correctness is destroying this country. I remember WWII and the unity we had as a united people. It was a wonderful feeling. Great to be WINNING again with President Trump. People need to toughen up like we did by solving their own problems and taking responsibility for their actions. Too many wimps today to please me.

"Let us hope there will always be enough volunteers to keep America safe."

That's why I don't want anything to do with bringing back the draft. There are so many quality young people that are standing up and taking the oath to support and defend our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. We just don't hear about them, because they go out and do their jobs. We only hear about the crybabies because they are the loudest screaming about their rights or this or that.

To give you an example of the great young Marines we have out there today, read this recent submission to the weekly newsletter from Sgt. Grit of a Silver Start citation:

Lance Cpl. Cody Goebel
3rd Battalion, 5th Marines
Sangin, Afghanistan, Nov. 22, 2010
Award: Silver Star
While in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Lance Cpl. Goebel was manning a security position in the southern Green Zone of Sangin District when he was struck in the neck by enemy small arms fire. Knocked to the ground and severely wounded at his post, he quickly picked himself up, remounted his machine gun, and engaged the enemy’s firing position with full knowledge that his position was critical to his squad’s defense. For seven minutes, he ignored his life threatening wounds and delivered devastating machine gun fire on the enemy’s position, all while refusing medical attention until he was properly relieved. Finally, but only after a fellow squad member had manned his machine gun, Goebel moved 25 meters under his own power and under heavy fire across the observation post’s roof and down a 20-foot ladder to the casualty collection point. Upon reaching the ground, he collapsed due to the loss of blood and had to be carried to a helicopter landing zone for subsequent medical evacuation. His courage, heroism, and dedication to duty after sustaining a life threatening injury resulted in the successful blocking of an enemy attack and six enemy fighters killed.

I ask you, would you want L/Cpl Goebel, a volunteer there supporting his fellow Marines, or L/Cpl Snowflake who doesn't want to be there in the first place? L/Cpl Snowflake probably would have gone down and stayed down and endangered that whole squad and maybe more people get wounded and/or killed because of it. I'd rather have a smaller force of dedicated professionals than a large force of people forced into it.