tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post2568952526469688018..comments2024-03-23T05:16:23.443-05:00Comments on The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-17723517490790288912009-03-21T23:19:00.000-05:002009-03-21T23:19:00.000-05:00I think that it might be nice to understand a few ...I think that it might be nice to understand a few things about the draft. During Vietnam, when I was in the service, the draft served a purpose, but it had the college loophole which was often the rich kids or the anti war crowd way out. I chose to go into the air force and served from 65 to 69. Never got to Vietnam, but did get to Turkey, a hell hole. So I know the draft first hand and the military. The draft worked because you needed a lot of grunts to walk around the jungle and shoot and duck. These were fairly easy tasks and 500,000 died. The services are nothing like that today. Even the grunts have all kind of technology. A recruiter friend told me that he use to get about 1 in 20 that meet qualifications. Over the past 3-4 months, that number is now about 1-100 as the economy starts to get kids thinking about going into the military. More looking to get in, but even less percentage by far qualified. So national service does not really work unless we want to create more kids with guns and little brain power doing some task. The feel good programs like peace corp and others are not really effective. You can't really do any great tasks because most require some skill sets. Rich kids for the most part that went to the better schools want no part of any service work by a huge margin. And business needs everyone they can get as well who are trained. Frankly, the only place where it might work is in government service where you have 20 people managing 200 people sitting around on their ass complainging they are working to hard and resenting any of the taxpayers that come up to bother them.grampshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15458042134293544734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-18853733737279809462009-03-21T19:39:00.000-05:002009-03-21T19:39:00.000-05:00Thanks for reminding me, I gotta go buy some more ...Thanks for reminding me, I gotta go buy some more shells & cartridges.Subvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13523683273450353313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-16802480629496031232009-03-21T15:46:00.000-05:002009-03-21T15:46:00.000-05:00Folks it is DEAD WRONG to force anyone or limit an...Folks it is DEAD WRONG to force anyone or limit anyone due to a willingness to serve or not serve. This is and should be a free country. If a DRAFT and only a DRAFT is instituted to protect this country from FOREIGN AGRESSORS then mandatory service is acceptable. NO OTHER WAY!Simplex Virhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10794134630791552159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-64233289566931170042009-03-21T11:12:00.000-05:002009-03-21T11:12:00.000-05:00I think "brown shirts" in Obama's case may be a tr...I think "brown shirts" in Obama's case may be a triple entendre.VSOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400266818545081938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-91670993375070738212009-03-21T06:39:00.000-05:002009-03-21T06:39:00.000-05:00So, are they going to be known as the Obama Pink S...So, are they going to be known as the Obama Pink Shirts?Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07721319432213055605noreply@blogger.com