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Originally posted by Peaches@Feb 7 2005, 08:48 AM
I should let you guys read all the posts from the people who are TRYING to get into the military but can't because they have bad credit, they have juvenille felonies or adult misdemeanors, childhood asthma, previously broke a bone, they have a GED and not a diploma, etc. Even if you have a child you have to get a waiver and if you're a single parent, you don't get in at all unless you legally assign custody to someone else.
Just lessening some of the requirements would assure more people in the military with zero reason for a draft.
Of course, congress hasn't approved to expand the military and they are, in fact, making the AF and Navy smaller, so it's really a moot point.
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I think the Secretary of Defense has a little bit more information, and his saying that recruitment is below what they expected carries a little more weight than a message board.
Unless we are attacked again, opening additional fronts WILL casue further decrease in recruitment, and WILL eventually lead to a draft. (Unless of course we start leveling entire countries)