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I remember the young soldiers I’d get who had signed only a one- or two-year commitment, depending on specialty school duration. They were absolutely wasted billets, to a man. The last thing I want to see is such people compelled into the ranks.

National service (particularly outside of the military) holds a whole lot of value, and it would be good for the American public and American youth - look at what the Amish and the Mormons do with their placement of public service as a communal virtue.

It would not, regardless of our recruitment failings, be a good thing for today’s military - far too much legal restriction on training and enforcement of standards would lead to a majority DOD equivalent to McNamara’s Morons.

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