Are YOU Prepaired to get DRAFTED???

[polorboy]

Just for those people out there who want to know if you can still be drafted while you are in college, you can't. As long as you stay in college the army, navy, marines, etc can not draft you. So I am going to stay in college for as long as I can.

[slayer]

Originally posted by Doobie

MaGSkEr, You should be more patriotic! How can you not be willing to defend the country that has given you so much! Mom will not always be around to bail you out. Be a Man!

I am not a moderator, but I do respect everyones views no matter how unpopular they are or how much I disagree with someone. I also understand your dedication to military service to this country but what you wrote looked to me like a flame and as far as I know flaming is not tolerated here, and the moderators have done an exceptional job of making sure it doesn't happen and of informing people of the rules. If you weren't flaming him then, disregard what I have said. Although the part about not flaming people is strictly adhered to on these forums.

[thecavemankevin]

Originally posted by Nitroduck
Im 16 so I dont have much to worry about....But if there was a draft, I would be willing to fight them.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but i really don't want to hear a bunch of whiney p.c. brats complaining that what you said might hurt someone?s feeling.

But i do understand your frustration and it doesn't bother me.

[Army]

Just so everyone knows;

A draft resolution can be drawn up in any way. In WWII, if you were in college, you had the options of staying in and being an officer as soon as you graduated (this is what happened to my Dad, a 1stLT on a B-17), or you could be pulled out and sent to training if your major wasn't critical to the effort.

In Vietnam, the college deferment was written nearly the same way, except they wouldn't pull you out for being a "phys-ed" major, but wait until you graduated anyway.

Congress can draw up a draft that says there are no deferments at all too.

The odds of a draft being necessary in the immediate future are fairly slim, but do not discount the possibility!

[gmag]

I'm in college so I probably wouldn't get drafted.....but I don't know if I'm willing to die at an early age anyway. There will always be terrorists, how does Bush expect to rid the world of them all? I hope that the people who did this suffer rightfully but I don't want to lose more Americans trying to fight all the sick people of the world.

[InfinatyBPS]

Just wondering, would I have to...

be drafted, if I have asthma, flat feet, and a heart murmer, my mothers only son, and my mother is disabled. I think I am a perfect canidate to no have to go.

[Major Ho]

If I had gone through with my D.E.P.(delayed entry process) earlier this summer I would have completed all my training as a field medic by...Feb I think. I wonder if we would have had done something or in the midst of something by then. Just gimme my M-16 and my cammies and Im ready ! Hoo ah! But I prolly woulda sat in back twiddling my thumbs and helped soldiers with atheletes foot or something. LOL.
Oh yeah! Im color blind too, They never woulda let me go out there and shoot at anything that moves
Any one seen the movie The Siege?

[Flamebo]

Color blindness doesn't matter...

My dad and uncle were in Vietnam, both are colorblind.

I'm quite disappointed, to say the least, that the majority of of-age people on this board would do anything they could to AVOID defending their country at war. Draft-dodgers make me sick. This country was founded on war and it seems the majority of you couldn't care less what happens to it, as long as you don't have to get your hands dirty.

I could ramble on for pages if I felt like it, but that would only turn this thread into a flame and that won't accomplish anything...

[zyprex2000]

I will be glad to go if I am drafted. There is nothing more honorable than serving a country that has shielded us from bad elements in the world. We have enjoyed so much comparing to other countries in many aspects. But freedom isn't free. And living in fear is not a life at all. Today, a group of people has treaten the basic foundation of what America stand for, and that is not acceptable to me. I am prepaired!!! pick me! pick me!:)

zyprex

[StevoC]

Draft?

There are a lot of people signing up for the military now because of what happened. I think the US would ask for volunteers before drafting. The reserves alone are over 1 million troops.

I don't think there will be a draft....

[jas142]

I doubt there will be a draft, and if an actual war on Afghanistan in declared, I'm sure there would be no shortage of volunteers, because this attack really struck home.

[Snap_Dogg]

army are u going to be in the war

[FaSSt]

For a minute there, I thought you were talking about Nascar

But seriously, I don't think that the draft will be reinstituted. One of the cornerstones of out current military doctrine is that our troops are superior because they WANT to be troops. Granted, many young people could benefit from military training, but that's a social issue.

Another point is that this "new war" will not be a mostly conventional war. Therefore, the actions of civilians, quasi-civilians, and non-military government personell will be just as important to its conduct as the actions of soldiers. A huge standing army will be a liability, not an asset, in this "war".

Overall, I don't think that the draft will be used. If the country needs more soldiers, it should simply try to focus on bettering pay and benefits to soldiers in order to boost the reenlistment rate.

[-series-]

I have been thinking about this heavily for the last few days since the attack. I am not yet 18, but will be at that point in 4 months. Although the idea of being in the army never entered my head until this point, if I was drafted, I would go to do whatever I could.

[MAGgot Man]

I have read a few of these responses and from what I have read most of the younger people are trying to come up with all kinds of reasons as to why they cant go, or how they will not be drafted because they are too young, or how their family will keep them from going. Sounds like like a bunch scared rabbits to me. I think our government will do the best they can to keep from drafting. However, in times of war the conventional rules dont apply. They can just as easily draft 16 year olds as well as 40 year olds. Broken arms, asthma, flat feet, all of the excuses that I have read can be deemed unacceptable in times of war. All you really need to learn how to do is aim and shoot. I guess all Im trying to say is simply that rules of the draft can and will change as the need dictates. All you runners from the draft...I think its time to grow a pair.