Maybe the "old school" Army with NCOs who were NCOs and "Wall to Wall Counciling" for corrective behavior would be great for someone to turn their life around, but nowadays? lol. I was at the PX the other day, and some dumbass private strolling around in broad daylight with his PT shirt untucked in civilies, walked by 3 NCOs, none of which stopped to make an on the spot correction and I (a friggin' Officer) had to say the "WTF are you thinking"? The Army is going down the crapper.......
I completely disagree with the draft. That is a sure fire way to bring the military's "quality of product" down with a quickness
lol. You should see some of what we're getting now, especially when you see the CS and CSS units (fortuantly not so much with Combat Arms, yet......).
At least with a draft we'd get a broad cross-section of American society.
And we all know as soon as a draft became a reality, all those people in their SUVs with "Support the Troops" stickers (often next to a "W" sticker), would suddenly be screaming for an end to the war in Iraq.
if they are willing to pay it with military service instead of sitting around sponging off the system then I applaud them
Yeah, what a great idea. Let's take people with felony convictions, who couldn't buy a weapon in the civilian world; give them automatic weapons and grenade launchers, than put them in an extraordinarily stressful situation where if they screw up it will have massive strategic effects. Great idea.
Remember when those guys from the 101st went on a rampage and raped that girl, killed her family and than set the house on fire? The ring-leader of that was one of those knuckleheads some recruiter who needed numbers let in. The guy ended up getting discharged for Psyche issues, before the crime came to light, but it was obvious before that he had issues.
Besides the military is already full of people "sponging off the system", waiting to hit their 20, rather than the Kick-Ass & Take Names image the Army would like you to see.
...and the "penal squad" idea isn't a bad one, either.....think "Dirty Dozen"-type missions
I assume your volunteering you or your kids to lead them? Or is that for someone else to do?