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2016-02-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

Should women have to register for draft? Generals say yes

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-03 00:30|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Splashback

Posted by Tarzan Peacock3028 2016-02-03 00:58|| 2016-02-03 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Snicker.

Better ask Israel about how to do this best.

Posted by gorb 2016-02-03 01:33|| 2016-02-03 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 IDF tried it, gorb, several times: and it doesn't work---a billion years of evolution is against it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-02-03 04:10|| 2016-02-03 04:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, women can be great MPs, helicopter pilots, fighter pilots, maybe even drive a tank, a Bradley or an LAV, but I don't see them in a pure infantry role because of the 100 lbs of crap a grunt has to carry and the full contact nature of the sport. I bet they would do a lot of things if we let them but we can count on losing a lot of them before we get to full integration.

I'd say we should let some of these radical feminist iconoclasts that are lambasting for full integration and send them to the Marine Infantry School at Pendleton or Advanced Infantry Training at Benning.

Being a grunt is the toughest thing you can do, more arduous than college football so I am not sure how the ladies will respond to it.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-02-03 05:27|| 2016-02-03 05:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes. The ninetieth amendment broke the link between militia duty and the franchise which had existed from the start of the old republic. Well past time to put in back in. You want a say in the process, then you have skin in the game.

Every 'citizen' should be a member of the militia not just males (Title X USC, para 3.1.1 Militia). If you wish to decline militia duty you forfeit your 'citizenship' and become a 'resident' without a vote.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-03 08:22|| 2016-02-03 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 IDF tried it, gorb, several times: and it doesn't work---a billion years of evolution is against it.

I know, but the IDF never tried the "square peg in a round hole" method like they do over here.

Posted by gorb 2016-02-03 10:33|| 2016-02-03 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 You'd be surprised gorb, you'd be surprised.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-02-03 10:49|| 2016-02-03 10:49|| Front Page Top

#8 In this context, IMA pretty sure the term 'round hole' is sexist.

This is your last warning.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-03 10:50|| 2016-02-03 10:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I still say spread the seed and hide the eggs.

Posted by Iblis 2016-02-03 11:35|| 2016-02-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't want to rankle the 'brotherhood-of-arms', but doubling the distribution of militia trained citizens is appealing.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-02-03 12:25|| 2016-02-03 12:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Registration is one thing. Imagine the fun if somebody were to try and actually re-activate the draft.

I remember some of the sillier hysteria on some of the Ivy League Campuses when the First Gulf War (1991) got rolling. This would be a lot funnier. Hysterical, even.

I suspect there would be measurable reduction in overall efficiency, but I think it would be worth it just to be able to say "You wanted Equality? O.K., you got it. Enjoy!"

Posted by Nguard 2016-02-03 17:04|| 2016-02-03 17:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Also, I agree with P2K in #5 completely. Price of freedom, etc.

Posted by Nguard 2016-02-03 17:05|| 2016-02-03 17:05|| Front Page Top

#13 This is for all you new people. I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself! Welcome to the Roughnecks!

Do you want to know more?

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-02-03 18:24|| 2016-02-03 18:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Dang, forgot the quotation marks.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-02-03 18:24|| 2016-02-03 18:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Imagine the fun if somebody were to try and actually re-activate the draft.

Soldiers today are highly trained and motivated professionals. What would the military do with unmotivated drafted soldiers? Bugs Bunny testing large caliber shells for duds comes to mind.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-03 19:39|| 2016-02-03 19:39|| Front Page Top

#16 Bush's fault.

No major Conventional andor NucWar thru Year 2050 iff not 2100 = USDOD devol towards a 1-to-1-1/2 "Ocean/Regional War" Strategy = All-Volunteer Military All the Time for All Situations/
Contigencies = Women in Frontline Combat = OWG Amerika sending its All-Female USN Sub to covertly attack China's Three Gorges Dam in the Name of Humanity + Anti-Solar, GWCC Global Planetary Survival-Environ.

["THE DAMBUSTERS" + SINK-THE-TIRPITZ "X-CRAFT" WW2 Flicks here].

OTOH, que surprise surprise DemoLefty Politicos have begun criticizing what they themselves or thier Camp did much to implement - OH THE HUGE MANATEE!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-02-03 19:51|| 2016-02-03 19:51|| Front Page Top

#17 JM, Stream of consciousness is not to everyone's taste.

James Joyce, "Ulysses": "He is young Leopold, as in a retrospective arrangement, a mirror within a mirror (hey, presto!), he beholdeth himself. That young figure of then is seen, precious manly, walking on a nipping morning from the old house in Clambrassil to the high school, his book satchel on him bandolier wise, and in it a goodly hunk of wheaten loaf, a mother's thought."

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-03 20:00|| 2016-02-03 20:00|| Front Page Top

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Posted by gorb 2016-02-03 23:18|| 2016-02-03 23:18|| Front Page Top

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