I’d like to see 12-15 month enlistments. Get them right out of HS and serve for a year or so in time to start school in the fall at age 19 or so. No technical training, just infantry. They can serve here or in Iraq. What’s in it for them? A $2k IRA and a lot of financial advice every step of the way.
When their enlistment is up make sure more universities are turned into technical trade schools. Americorp was started to turn the young into leftists. Same with. the Peace Corps. A short, one year service would be tolerable. Just don’t give them too many veteran benefits. An IRA would do.
“””””I’d like to see 12-15 month enlistments. Get them right out of HS and serve for a year or so in time to start school in the fall at age 19 or so. No technical training, just infantry. “”””””
They already have 2-year enlistments and have had them off and on for over 50 years, in the past if a 2-year soldier decided he wanted to apply for something like the Special Forces he would have to extend his enlistment to accommodate the additional training time, in 1972 that was as little as 8 months extension for Special Forces.
“The two-year option is now available for 84 different career fields, ranging from infantry and combat engineers to paralegals and aviation operations specialists.”