The United States Should Offer Millennials 1-Year Enlistments To Test Out Military Service

...but a huge waste of time and money inasmuch as most millennials are physically, mentally, or emotionally unfit for service.

I say it might take a whole year of training and on the job training to make them adroit.

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That is, certainly, an interesting concept...I hadn't heard that notion mentioned in quite that way till now...I'd merely point out that, though I completely realize you and/or others seeing this might well disagree, and, also, I'm completely aware this isn't a perfect alternative, nor does it exist in all states and/or territories, I quite honestly have been of the view that the state defense forces (SDFs), while not perfect substitutes, at least exist now, don't deploy out of state/territory or overseas, though they do have multi-yr enlistments...I know they're not exactly the same, however, merely if only because they do at least exist, I've often suggested them as a way to "test drive" to see if the life might be for those who might want to later try to go Federal, afterward...our dentist, as I'd related before, took my suggestion to try the NY Guard (NYG), the NY SDF, then went NY ARNG thereafter, having found the life was, in fact, for him...purely another thought, though it's quite clearly a good article, the one you have here, as well, obv....