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Originally Posted by Locobot
It seems my complete unemployability may save my ass yet. I'm more than confidant that I have no "critical skills" that the military would be interested in. Sucks for you engineers and medical personnel though.
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Let me make sure I understand this. There is NO employer who's deemed you a suitable person to hire, and you consider that a great situation? And we're supposed to be impressed with your perspicacity?
Just tell me that you're not living off the tax dollars of people who actually work. Especially people who are proud that they work.
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Originally Posted by Locobot
The more important question here is of course could there be a draft? Does the military still have the capability to indoctrinate and train conscripts? I could see a lot of 18-20 year old boys being succeptable to military brain washing, much older than that I'm not so sure.
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I can assure you that people can be brainwashed at a later age. I saw plenty of older college students who intended to vote for Kerry. Hook them up with a rock star, and they're lemmings.
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Originally Posted by Locobot
All this talk of a gender-neutral draft is interesting to me also. I know some fairly tough 18-25 year old women who could probably hold their own in a warzone. I also know quite a few young women who would be completely useless in battle, I don't care how much training they have. Hypothetically it's pretty hilarious to think about GWBush sending wave after wave of 18-year-old girls at the enemy, but I wouldn't put it beyond him.
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So you believe that women in the military are all infantry, and that they never work in such jobs as supply, medical, communications, or as pilots?
If every woman in the military were suddenly gone right now, the services would be unable to function.