Draft in Israel taking in all young people. Will this happen in America as the soldiers come home

[DhhD]

from Afghanistan? College is free for them when they get home. This would solve the college loan debt problem in America. Royals in England serve in the military there.

May 17, 2013. Is there a need to size up an army in Israel?

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/05/2013517155832929633.html

Every person serves in the defense of their country by draft a a young age.

http://www.nbn.org.il/aliyahpedia/army/579-joining-the-israeli-army-an-overview-of-the-draft-process.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. America learned better than to have a draft after Vietnam.

The draft was one of the main driving forces behind the antiwar movement.

It's much simpler & more cost-effective to make financial conditions at home so intolerable for young people that they have no choice but to join the military.

[MADem]

2. The USA is downsizing their military--we are midway through a multi-year drawdown.

We are an all volunteer force and that will not change absent WW3.

Draftees are expensive, they don't want to be there, they are unfit--either too weak or too fat or both--and it's too difficult to whip them into shape to be productive members of a military unit.

The Services are turning people AWAY who want to join. There are a very limited number of "CAT IV" (not terribly bright) openings offered, and when the lines to join are long, they limit accession by those people as well as non-high school graduates (to include GEDs).

Don't hold your breath waiting for a draft--it ain't gonna happen.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. +1

And so bang on as to how unhealthy and unfit the average 18 year old is in America today.

[MADem]

4. Schools getting rid of gym classes are to blame, I think.

Plus, parents are so paranoid that, even on weekends or in summertime, they don't dare say "Get up outta this house and GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!!!!!"

In summertime, I can remember having some cereal at breakfast, grabbing a peanut butter sandwich and putting it in my bike pouch behind the seat, and taking off all the damn day with my friends. We'd stop midday, eat the peanut butter, get a drink out of someone's garden hose (ooooh, but that's BAAAD for ya!) and keep on going--playing ball, riding around, going swimming, whatever. We'd cover miles on those bikes, then come home when the sun was going down, eat dinner, watch one of three channels on television (when we had a tv) and go to bed and sleep like logs.

I feel bad for kids. Sure, the X Box is fun, but it's no substitute for getting out there and having your adventures in the real, as opposed to virtual, world.

[hamsterjill]

5. +1

That pretty much describes my own childhood, too. We were out the door in the morning and didn't come back home until time for dinner. And we were safe and well-behaved in between.