CPT Private RallyPoint Member 15365 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What would an all volunteer military look like? 2013-12-04T11:25:03-05:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 15365

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What would an all volunteer military look like?

2013-12-04T11:25:03-05:00 2013-12-04T11:25:03-05:00 SGT Thomas Sullivan 15369

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Are we not currently an All Volunteer Service?<br>

2013-12-04T11:46:24-05:00 2013-12-04T11:46:24-05:00 SGM Matthew Quick 15374

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Could you please clarify this question?<br><br>We've been an all-volunteer force for over 30 years.

2013-12-04T12:00:14-05:00 2013-12-04T12:00:14-05:00 Cpl Glynis Sakowicz 15377

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Is that not what we already have?  

2013-12-04T12:09:06-05:00 2013-12-04T12:09:06-05:00 Cpl Glynis Sakowicz 15384

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Well, duh... I reread the posting, and I realize the question is considering whether it is better to have everyone do  a stint in the military, or depend on a volunteer group.<div>Speaking for myself, I don't think a manditory service stint would harm anyone, and it might help a great many learn a little disipline and teamwork, but that is not how this country operates.</div><div>Instead of serving the country, we have the 'knockout game' fathers with 20 odd children by the time they are 30, and mothers with 14 children demanding that we as a country, be responsible for her children, when she obviously isn't.</div><div>I wonder, if someone would have had the ability to get people like that into an environment where they had to learn self-reliance, respect, and responsibility, how could this country not be the better for it?   Just saying....</div><div><br></div>

2013-12-04T12:31:34-05:00 2013-12-04T12:31:34-05:00 PO1 William "Chip" Nagel 95414

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Isn't that what we have right now? I hadn't heard of a draft. Although I have heard some folks say that might be what some of these young folks need to give them some perspective and I wouldn't disagree.

2014-04-07T00:00:17-04:00 2014-04-07T00:00:17-04:00 SFC Michael Hasbun 854758

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I know everyone's first response will be "isn't that what we already are?". <br />My honest answer to that is no. People may enlist voluntarily, but that doesn't mean they continue to be in voluntarily past that date. There are plenty of personnel in uniform who have no desire to be, but can't leave becuase of their contracts. <br /><br />The only way we can ever truly be an "all volunteer" military is to allow contracts to be nullified "at will".

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