Food for thought (in case Bush gets re-elected.)

About the draft

Published on September 18, 2004 By Jamie Burnside In Politics

So let's say Bush gets re-elected.

What do you think that the chance is of the draft being re-instated by 2008?

(A "draft" is compulsory service. Young men have to join the army to fight for something that their president/government wants to do. Men between the ages of 18-24 have no choice.)

Comments (Page 2)

ShoZan

on Sep 19, 2004

Stop Loss on units 90 days out before deploy is perfectly reasonable. After all would you go to war with a battle buddy you have known less than 90 days? Not to mention how hard it would be to get someone one trained and ready to go right before a deploy if that person came on board with less than 90 days to the deploy.

I don't think it is a back door draft as much as it stops vital personnel from leaving a unit right before a deployment. Which if it is was allowed it would overall hurt the unit since they will either have to get a replacement trained up on what little time there is OR go undermanned.

Plus the Army is also trying to at the same time get new units formed and trained up in the new Modular formation, like 1st Core, as well as updating training after every single incident in Iraq (whether it went right or wrong). So it is not a fast process to switch gears, update equipment, train soldiers, and get them in new unit formations. Gen. Cody talked about the new equipment for each soldier. Which is based on lessons learned in Afghanistan and Iraq. They need 640,000 units of it, but are going to buy 800,000 (right now there are 640,000 Active Duty, not to mention the Army will probably help supply the Marines). Problem is that the Army right now is more in a cold war formation than the new formation, i.e. (Cold War) Tank Heavy, Infantry Light. Seriously though if you want to know what is going on and what the Army (don't know about Navy, Air Force or Marines) is trying to do look into the Speech that the VCSA General Cody gave on Friday Sept.17.

Oh forgot to mention they are also trying to implement Joint Operation changes as well.

Madine

on Sep 20, 2004

I think the chance is about 0, barring a war with China.

bakerstreet

on Sep 20, 2004

" I think the chance is about 0, barring a war with China."

War with China would mostly entail pushing buttons. By the time it was over I doubt there'd be much to occupy on either side, and few left to draft.

Deference

on Sep 20, 2004

SOD Rumsfield has stated that he doesn't believe in a draft. I wouldn't be surprised if what actually occurred is some dumbsh*t in congress proposing a mandatory tour of duty for all High School graduates similar to the model in Germany. ..

sandy2

on Sep 20, 2004

Draft could never happen. Newsweek had a very nice article on why not. I'll try to find it.

ShoZan

on Sep 20, 2004

Or Israel, but than again in Israel it is both MALE and FEMALE.

Draft in the US would hurt the effectiveness of the military greatly.

SSG Geezer

on Sep 20, 2004

I remember as Grog said; the mess that was left over from the previous draft, (USMC 79-83) and the arguments for the draft
that are flying around are BS. For example, Rangels argument on minorities suffering the most casualties in combat.
The fact is that casualties are not race based but fairly close to the demographics of those
serving in the military. As the military is all volunteer, I see no real argument for the draft based on emotion and lies.

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