What is your opinion on this idea?
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A lot of other countries require compulsory military service for two years. What do you think of doing something similar here, EXCEPT--and this is a big except--people can either choose the military or an international or domestic service program. Both options provide housing, food, an income, and a ranking system whereby the person can improve his/her status and income (like the military) in exchange for the two years' service. I think this would be a good way to teach people responsibility and ownership of their actions.
Everyone would do this, male and female, and two years would take place immediately following high school or GED. Those who wanted to go to college first could do so, but they would be required to fulfill their two years when they graduated (for example, a med school graduate could do his two years as a government doctor, and would be paid government doctor rates, but would have to go where there is need, just like "non college" participants.
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What is your opinion on this idea?We had something along those lines when Selective Service was geared up for Vietnam. There were too many people, however, so a lottery was established. Consider the numbers for the US, between ages of 15-64 there are 100 million males, narrowing that by the Census Bureau, there are about 21 million Americans between 20-24, of which there are just shy of 11 million males.
That's one awful big army. Sorry, but we don't need it and the rest of the world wouldn't stand for it. Thanks for thinking though, because the military service during WWI and WWII was one of the great standardizing forces in American education and culture at the time.
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