Military draft proposed by 20-year Marine Corps combat veteran

[rangerrebew]

Military draft proposed by 20-year Marine Corps combat veteran
 
AUGUST 05, 2023 TIMOTHY FRUDD

A 20-year combat veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps is proposing that the United States consider a “hybrid model” for military conscription that would reinstitute a limited draft in conjunction with the nation’s volunteer recruits.

Retired Marine Lt. Col. Joseph Plenzler, who served as the strategic communication advisor for three Marine Corps Commandants from 2010 to 2015, recently explained that the United States has used a “combination of volunteers and draftees to meet our national defense personnel needs,” particularly in the face of crisis.
 
According to Plenzler, the U.S. military currently requires roughly 160,000 service members to enlist out of 30 million eligible citizens in order to achieve its recruitment goals. However, Plenzler claims that after two decades of war that “ended unsuccessfully” and relatively low unemployment numbers, “experts believe the all-volunteer force has reached a breaking point.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/08/military-draft-proposed-by-20-year-marine-corps-combat-veteran/

[sneakypete]

I'm with him on this.

I think we need a draft in order to help keep an eye on what the army is doing. Draftees,some of whom will no doubt either have political connections or know  how to make them,keeping an eye on what is going on and being forced to take part in it against their will is the best system I can think of to keep the army from "stepping out of bounds".

Who knows,it might even keep another "Miss Miley" from obtaining power?

[libertybele]

A draft?  How much riff-raff (gays, transgenders, etc.) will be mandated to serve?  Is this what the military really needs??

[Free Vulcan]

Funny, we didn't need a draft till this clown show got into power.

What good would it do if the only thing our leadership cares about are drag queens?

[sneakypete]

A draft?  How much riff-raff (gays, transgenders, etc.) will be mandated to serve?  Is this what the military really needs??

@libertybele

Not everybody was eligible for the draft  back when it was accepted. Felony  convictions,drug/alcohol  addictions,flat feet,hearing loss,etc,etc,etc,were grounds for being sent  back home. I know of one man that was sent back home after being drafted during WW-2 because he spent all night crying because he missed his  mother. I know this to be true because he was related to me. One of his brothers stuck his fingers in the barrel of a shotgun and shot off both fingers in order to avoid the draft during WW-2.

Ironically enough,one of their neighbors and former schoolmates WAS drafted against his will,and ended up in the tank corps,and getting a battlefield commission to 1st Lt along with a Silver Star during the invasion of Italy.  The funny part about this was when the war ended and he wasn't immediately discharged and sent home,he bought a ticket and came home on an ocean liner. He got booted out of the army for desertion. He told me that in HIS  "book",he was drafted into the army to fight in WW-2,and once WW-2 was over,as far as HE was concerned,he was free to come back home.

Truth to tell,I agree with him. A contract is a contract.

BTW,I do NOT  blame either of the other two for what they did.  If you just can't do something,you can't do it and there is no need to for the government to try to force you to do it. Neither the man that cried or his brother suffered any negative consequences other than the physical ones the brother put on himself. IMNSHO,both were damn fools. Most WW-2 vets never heard a shot fired because it takes up to ten men in the rear to keep one solider on the front line supplied and see to it that his needs (like being wounded) are met. There were a HELL of a lot more men in WW-2 driving supply trucks than there were tanks.