Training Division.
This is coolbert:
In response to a comment made to my blog:
"How on earth would you select the best during a draft? The smartest inductees at least will be most successful in escaping service. Watch as young people start dropping out of high school rather than get high grades and be drafted, or cram themselves with Doritos to be fat and not be drafted (heck, it happens already and there's no draft). Remember Vietnam: young men would do ANYTHING--cut their fingers off, inhale sawdust, shoot out their eardrums, flee to Canada--to avoid the draft."
What this commentator says is absolutely correct. During the Vietnam War, potential draftees did EVERYTHING they could to escape military service. And did so, quite successfully too.
What would I propose is a limited draft. I just cannot believe that there are NOT a number of young men out there that do correctly perceive the danger we are in. An assault by the jihadis and their ilk that does poses a significant danger to our way of live and nation period.
Such persons, young men of draft age and physically and mentally at the top of their game, that would be willing to serve with honor. Such persons are out there.
You are not talking here about hundreds of thousands of young men. You are talking perhaps at the most tens of thousands.
To flesh out these Army Reserve training divisions. Such as the 88th and 85th Training Divisions.
A draft that would select ONLY the best for military service. With a special program, as what was had during the Vietnam War. Young men, put through an intensive six month program, to train as infantry squad leaders. After six months of service, you would hold the rank of E-6, Staff Sergeant.
Such a a program DID exist during the Vietnam War. I have an informant that has told me that this program was successful.
Produced persons of caliber, and ability.
Will such a thing happen??
Select only the best physically and mentally for the draft. Organize into training divisions.
As much as I would like to see it happen, to fill manpower shortages. My intuition tells me it will NOT happen.
Too much politics will be involeved.
It will not occur.
Wish it would. But I know otherwise.
coolbert.
2 Comments:
In Lincoln's day, the draft was basically a social tool, used to shame able bodied men into the Union Army. With half a brain and/or some greenbacks (which the government also needed), one could live as he had always done. No sweat. See Grover Cleveland.
However, a draft whether limited or unlimited, military or the corvee, or of elites or masses, is a form of slavery. You can be sure Lincoln was fully aware the grievous harm done to the nation by employing the draft to abolish chattel slavery. Many a foreign power pointed and laughed at the dichotomy.
A free government that employs a draft is a betrayer of its principles and unworthy of support.
8:57 AM
One huge factor working against military recruitment is the affirmative action policy in promotions.
Special dispensation is required for 'promotion of all white men without disabilities'.
The IQ's being different between the majority and the disadvantged minorities on average, this will disproportionately thwart recruitment of above average intelligence men of majority background.
Amazingly, and without being called treason, this anti-merit policy is being continued in wartime.
This is the reason why they have to use national guard year after year; they need smarter soldiers for all the high-tech equipment that is used, but they can't reward white men w/o disabilites, the DOD term, with promotions to the extent that would reverse their diversity goals for officer ranks.
3:05 AM
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