Military service should be voluntary because of the choices and sacrifices the military forces people to make. As a military child I understand what the military service can do to lifestyles, relationships and individuals. The time spent serving in the military can uproot or separate families, friends and destroy those relationships. The places you live and how you live will change. The training, expectations and things the military forces you to do will change people and not always for the best. The military is not for everyone and making service mandatory will cause more problems for our nation and its people than its worth.
During my life I have lived in six different places over sixteen years and have spent years of that time separated from my mother because of the military. Not being able to have a stable environment during my childhood had its pro’s and con’s but the loss of friends and constantly changing schools was still hard. The military had forced my mother to move every three years, take classes that sent her away from her family and survive off of a military pay check. The path that my mother had chosen to take in her career was even one that the military had considered family oriented. This was ok because it was her choice to live this way. However some people are not willing to make these sacrifices because it’s not how they want to spend their life so they shouldn’t be forced to.
Not all people have the strength to serve their country through military service or disciplined enough to be successfully obedient. Also without either of those qualities the zero fail policy is forfeit and that puts our country at risk. To be productive in the military you must be motivated by your own means to fully serve your cou...
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...over mandatory military service is not a productive choice. When you send your loved ones off to the military they never come back, the returning person will be different in ways or gone all together. Things that you had before are likely to be gone or changed so severely that it’s foreign to you. The once familiar homes, significant others and children will be different. These are things that are forfeited when a person chooses a life of serving their nation and not everyone can cope with the losses that follow. The military makes no promises and is there to serve its country not foster an environment of comfort for it’s personal. Voluntary service is so important because it gives our citizens the choice to live their lives how they wish to. The consequences of mandatory service would weigh down the collective soul of America, could our country survive the burden?
Since the conflict in Vietnam ended, the military has been an all-volunteer force. This means that generally people are in the military because they want to serve, albeit the motivation for service can vary across a wide spectrum of reasons.
...e unnecessary moneymakers, products of lies and deception behind the scenes, orchestrated by powerful and rich men who usually never suffer but, rather, gain from their machinations to create war. I support a National Service Obligation system that would draft all persons, at age 18, to serve for 18 months in some form of public service. This would allow American citizens to contribute to the country in different ways. But it should be one?s own decision how to contribute to the country. As said before, I believe that reinstating the military draft will not increase patriotism or a sense of duty, but will rather decrease the effectiveness of the military and will create huge protest feeling among country?s citizens. Therefore we should explore every possible way to contribute the country?s future instead of just putting our future and ourselves in the Meat Grinder.
Ever since World War II, the last war that garnered full American support, the percentage of American citizens enrolling in the U.S. Army has diminished significantly. The U.S. is a major military power in the present world; American soldiers are engaged in many multi-theater positions, consequently dispersing troops over various regions worldwide. As only one in ten citizens has served in the US Army, American knowledge of military conditions is rapidly lessening along with the national harmony that complements such knowledge. Therefore, the comprehension that American security is closely associated with a formidable military never resonated within the greater part of modern American citizens. Although antiwar activists may decry compulsory conscription as unconstitutional, it needs to be reinstated in order to solidify the meaning of being an American citizen, boost the economy by providing jobs, and unify the American people with enhanced homeland security.
In America, we live by the idea of freedom. When one thinks about freedom, America comes to mind. The stars and the stripes. The Declaration of Independence. The found fathers. We have created the ultimate "land of the free", our national anthem even embodies the idea. Freedom means having your own voice, and being able to do what makes you happy. Forcing young men and women to take out two years of their lives to serve for our military is not even close to following the idea of a free country. We have the right to choose what field we want to work in, and we should have the freedom to do so.
Now, the U.S. military consists entirely of volunteer soldiers, and the draft has been discontinued, though while being discontinued, Government requests that all citizens sign for national service when they come of age to enlist. In common vernacular this means that government wants all citizens to sign what is essentially a draft form when our draft has been disbanded; this legal document will force some citizens to work for the government in a way remarkably similar to the draft. (Hasbrouck)
Military service in the United States should be compulsory (required) because it will provide economic and social benefits to those people who are serving as well as create a benefit for the general public as well as nation as a whole.
The United States should not reinstate the draft in order to save money, to lower stress, and to allow for a more effective military. In order to maintain a stable army the government needs to have the mental and physical ability to tolerate the stress and physical conditions. Paying volunteer soldiers proves less expensive than compensating millions of unwilling servicemen. When drafting people they will expect more of a return for serving their personal time. Forcing these training cadres to put up with the recruits makes their stress levels raise. These ranks already have to worry about 2,600,000 enlisted people, not including active duty soldiers. Coming from an enlisted soldier in the army, why would a volunteer soldier want to fight along
If you want to go to war, go ahead. I will not stop you from doing something that is obviously keeping our nation as safe as possible but that’s a long way from what conscription is. No teenager is ready for war, including myself. Is anyone really ever ready for war? No, of course not. However, it should at least be your own choice. America is supposed to be the land of the free and brave. You can’t be free if you don’t have the liberty to choose whether you will join the armed forces or not. Conscription eradicates our basic human rights while simultaneously disregarding the importance of education, free will, and child development and for these reasons I strongly disagree with
The benefits of having a military draft are obvious. We need soldiers to fight and not every citizen is willingly going to do so, so unfortunately there have been times where the people had to be forced to fight. Many people find that this whole concept of a draft is a horrible idea. The basis of this country is that everyone is free to do whatever he or she want and to not do whatever they don’t want. You can express free religion and freedom of speech, and you can even criticize the president strongly, but then out of the blue, it is not your choice whether or not you go to war? It is confusing to think that with all these freedoms, there would still be a draft for so many years. Truthfully, it lacks consi...
Yet we continue to stick with the all volunteer force. General Stanley A. McChrystal, former commander of the international forces in Afghanistan, states “ I think if a nation goes to war, every town, every city needs to be at risk,”.What Gen. McChrystal was arguing was that if we get involved in a war that the whole country should be involved, not just the select few who want to be involved. Then author Thomas E. Ricks argues that when Gen. McChrystal spoke that it was the first time that a high a high profile military Officer has spoken out against the AVF, (all volunteer force)(Ricks). This just goes to show that even our military personnel agree that we need a stronger military. If we revise the draft we should include males and females ages 18 to 35, this would increase the size of our military tremendously. They all don't necessarily have to go to war either, Their are plenty of other government jobs they can do. For example, paperwork, and driving high military personnel around. Now with professional soldiers freed from low skills jobs we can now have more troops to protect our country
...itary conscription in the name of freedom is an illegitimate, criminal organization. A government that is willing to enslave people cannot be trusted to protect your liberty. A government that forces people to fight for its goals, its protection, and its benefit has created a morally perverse situation where there is no free society left to defend” (Boldin). Another thing we must look at is without an overflow of troops; “unpopular wars are very difficult to fight. The ability to use conscription actually encourages politicians to wage even more wars;the massive resources are a temptation that is hard for the war-lover to resist. When the draft was finally undermined in the 1970′s, for example, the Vietnam War ended” (Boldin).
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living." When joining the military you must perform your best to protect our country. Tons of men and women around the world fight for the country and make a career out of it. There are three major branches and many different jobs to go with each one. Each have many specific tasks. (Robbie Hughes Interview)
What if we all went into the military after high school? Sure we would all be disciplined and focused and I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. But we would all be the same and we wouldn’t have free choice anymore. We would all have the same military mindset. We would eat think and sleep war. I have relatives as close as my father that are in the/or were in the military. They are fun to be around at most times but they have no tolerance for mistakes. The military has great benefits like paying for college tuition or the pay check or even just staying mentally and physically strong
Most people have, at one point or another, considered what they were going to do with their lives. Whether a person would like to become an activist, an artisan or a business professional, the military has something for everyone. Finding a path in life is often filled with uncertainty and procrastination. The United States military is a path in itself, should one wish to retire from it; however, should a person wish to make their own path, there are benefits for that as well that can remove all doubt and curb procrastination. Due to these many benefits, I believe that it should be mandatory for all adults to enlist for a minimum of twenty-four months.
Mandatory military service may also give people foster children that have just turned 18 an opportunity to start off well. The military give an all paid education with living accommodations and many other privileges