SPC Gordon B Rice ...are you seeing a behavioral health professional?

Issue is that some college students may suddenly discover “bone spurs”

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LTC Eugene Chu Biden skated out of service with five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, and later was kept from service because of asthma. Okay...

Sgt (Join to see) - I don't know any details of how educational deferments worked or what changes there were to how it affected an eventual service obligation, but I was in Parris Island with a dozen graduate engineers in my boot platoon. They were all in their late 20's to nearing 35, the age limit for initial military service.
As I understand it, they all had accepted deferments to complete their education, and perhaps gotten further delay as employees of defense contractors.
When the time came to pay the piper for those deferments, and actually serve the time in the military that they had put off for so long, they still had a pretty good deal. They only had to serve 90 days active duty, then they served 6-8 years in the standby reserve, no drill or summer camp, just kept "on the books" until discharged.
Of course they had the worst possible 3 months of active duty -- Marine boot camp.
Semper Fi.

Good Observations

SFC Ralph E Kelley - I seriously used to think this should be something every American should have to do- not the Peace Corps either. Serve your country. I still like the idea, but we have shifted so far to worrying about the 1% and their feelings this would be make military life harder. Now if we could do it and assign problems to menial duties like cleaning interstates and such...sure.

I served as a draftee when volunteers were not everywhere. We still had to meet some degree of physical standards. Maybe my eyes were closed to the problems. I have 2 friends who were DIs during that time, one Army and one Marine Corps. Neither has said it was a bad idea. Those that can't qualify should have some form of public service. As to whether or not it will instill patriotism, work ethic that is an open question. There will be mixed results. It will not hurt them, some will improve and some less so. I just believe our young people need to have some skin in the game

Good assessment.

Amen CW3 Keck. Well said.

During the civil war, If you paid $200 you could buy your way out of the draft. So the rich always had a way out. You could send someone in you place. Their were riots in New York over the draft. Their are always some people trying to get a free ride and it would happen again if we ever go to the draft. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. Semper Fi.