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Perhaps, but I also recall lines at the recruitment offices after 9/11. I was motivated to join even though I was over 30 years old, with a wife, in the middle of a professional program. Were at 21 and single again, I could not imagine having not joined.
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And if the military couldn't have paid you?
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Tanks control the macro terrain, but men with guns control the micro. You will not win a war with IED's unless the nation at wars will is weak.
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I don't know if I'd call them "men with guns". If it were China, it'd be some of the best trained military officers in the world, who are quite capable in suburban terrain. While I'd like to think I could fare well in a firefight, realistically they'd kill me quickly. Even if I was well trained and well armed.
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And when you rise up, what will you fight with?
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I'd likely be the guy who organizes everything. I know how to build bombs and I know how to set traps, but more than that I focus under pressure.
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Personally I'd be happier if two years of service was required and after you were required to keep your weapon ready to use until the age of 60, after that it would be optional.
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I'd support a draft if Congress and the President couldn't make any military decisions. Until the military is de-politicized, most people, myself included, wouldn't trust our fates to politicians.