Posted on May 23, 2014
What if the only way to be qualified to vote was after serving for 2 years after high school in a field that benefits society?
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What if the only way to be qualified to vote was after serving for 2 years after high school in a field that benefits society. Military service, teaching, community service, or peace corps. What do you feel would be different in laws and communities as a result?
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At this point I'd be happy if they could just enforce that you have to prove your identity to vote!
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Living in fantasy land, where every able bodied citizen had a mandatory service obligation:
If I were SECDEF, this is the program I would set up for those who chose the military a their service obligation:
1) Everyone begins their service in a training division - separate units from the deployable full time force. You choose and train in an MOS/specialty that has civilian potential and is translatable across all 5 branches of service. Your aptitude and leadership skills are tested and evaluated. this force supplements the full time force in a CSS type of role.
2) At the 2 year point you have the option of leaving or transferring to the full time force, your choice of branch, enlistment term, OCS, bennies, etc.
Not perfect, but the way I see it from my heavily fortified combat sofa.
If I were SECDEF, this is the program I would set up for those who chose the military a their service obligation:
1) Everyone begins their service in a training division - separate units from the deployable full time force. You choose and train in an MOS/specialty that has civilian potential and is translatable across all 5 branches of service. Your aptitude and leadership skills are tested and evaluated. this force supplements the full time force in a CSS type of role.
2) At the 2 year point you have the option of leaving or transferring to the full time force, your choice of branch, enlistment term, OCS, bennies, etc.
Not perfect, but the way I see it from my heavily fortified combat sofa.
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If your not going to serve I think there should be an alternative I do not think everyone should be able to vote. It is a highly coveted way to make a difference and many people I have met have no business voting because they are selfish and do not realize how much our rights really mean. I have as well many others on here seen other countries and I do not think voting should be a right taken lightly but one that has to be earned just like running for president the Military should be requirement.
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MSG(P) Michael Warrick
As a American citizen you have voting rights unless you lose them for doing things that you should not have been doing !
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Sgt Randy Hill
Sir I have worked with the Canadian military and have found that their system works where everyone's basic training is the same. After basic your ait and service component gets chosen. I like some of your ideas and theirs. Getting past service rivalry will be an obstacle.
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Capt Richard I P.
SSG Trevor S. And if life was a Heinlein Novel, that's not the one I'd pick to be living in...
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