Seventy-three years ago, The Times reported that the United States Army demobilized its seven millionth soldier after the end of World War II. When I unearthed this clip several months ago, I thought I was misreading the number. It’s hard to imagine a single service ballooning to more than eight million people (the Army’s peak strength by V-E Day in 1945) and then releasing 6.5 million soldiers in just over a year. The draft certainly made it easier to fill the ranks, but nearly 40 percent of World War II-era service members across all branches volunteered for duty. By comparison, in today’s all-volunteer force approximately 475,000 service members make up the active-duty Army — a fraction of the overall adult population in the United States.
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Good idea, but I'd go for a minimum of two years, no matter who your daddy or mommy are.
ReplyDeleteYes and it has to be military service and equal for men and women.
ReplyDeleteMany more, much better candidates would sign up if it weren't for the fact that they would be sent to die to make haliburton stock go up.
ReplyDeleteWe would be better off lowering prison population by sending them into Service.
ReplyDeleteWe have a paid work force in the millions that could be put to some use for our Country we don’t utilize.
I think there would be a lot less war for profit if there were mandatory participation. People would care what happened to soldiers and why they were being sent to their deaths to pad the pockets of the all ready uber wealthy.
ReplyDeleteIt would help de-mystify guns and weapons and teach folks how to handle them properly. That would be a nice bonus.
I'm not sure how I feel though, about compulsory participation... something about that rubs me the wrong way... it doesn't seem like liberty or freedom to force someone into service.
I think that all things equal, it seems like a good idea.
Too many snowflakes with made up medical conditions, drug habits or just plain fat tubs of lard that the military would never take even if there was a global full scale alien invasion going on.
ReplyDelete@ October 9, 2019 at 8:40 AM
ReplyDeleteBone spurs.
Northwest Woodsman: I can’t imagine what it would be like to be responsible for meeting the bus loads of conscripted snowflakes and try to organize them into either a military force or a labor group. Worked in Germany in toe 1930s, however we are talking about an educated, homogeneous group that understood discipline and worked well under regimented conditions. We could not field a group like that today.
ReplyDeleteYes - Since Whites had to fight & die in All the wars past,
ReplyDeleteNow it is Everyone else's Turn !!!!