military draft becoming law. Some believed that the Bush administration was preparing to reinstate the draft. There was legislation pending in the House in 2004 and 28 million dollars was added to the Selective Service System to prepare for possible conscription. If a draft does come to life‚ all persons‚ including women‚ will have to perform military service. One thing about the new legislation is a clause prepared for the conscientious
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recite the national oath before every class‚ which was new but easy to forget‚ for it failed to spark patriotic or nationalistic feeling within its reciters. For now‚ my thoughts were on my family. A multitude of questions swarmed my head‚ Why was conscription activated? What happens when I turn sixteen? What about my parents‚ will my dad go into the army? Questions I would fortunately never know the answer to. On the journey home I overheard people discussing possible ways to leave the country. I
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Mandatory Military Service There is a buzz around talking about mandatory military service‚ and I agree with it. There should be a mandatory draft for all young men and women from the ages of 18 to 21. The United States has gone through so many changes in just a short time; WWII was only 65 years ago‚ a long with the Korean War only 50 plus years ago and now we get to deal with the attack of 9/11. I have mentioned only the wars that we as a nation are fighting for our freedom. In WWII men were
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During World War I‚ conscription was a big issue for Australia‚ Labour Prime Minister Billy Hughes want to enforce conscription‚ following the footsteps of Britain and New Zealand‚ who introduced conscription earlier in the year. Hughes wanted conscription because if Australia helped to fight against Germany‚ it could stop them from possibly invading the ground of Australia; also it is because people who are willing to join the army were dropping‚ so he wanted conscription to pass in the parliament
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economically‚ and therefore return our society to a strong and proud nation it once was. Currently military drafts are instated in countries throughout the world‚ both in times of war and peace. A military draft is defined as a forced military conscription requiring its citizens to serve a mandatory military term as specified by the country or governing body. There are many countries that have a draft and there is a concern that the United States (US) might be one to join them. I am a link of many
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The controversy surrounding the military draft has since its inception to its repeal in the nineteen-seventies; however the vitality of the draft remains because United States may need more than a volunteer army‚ it requires everyone to serve‚ and higher trained and educated people are needed to run new technology. The first reason is the military may need more than a volunteer army to defend the nation in a national emergency. In the U.S. constitution the government has the right the raise and
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Do you think we need a military draft? I think that we do not need a military draft. There are no good reasons why we should possibly throw are life away when we don’t want to. There are many good reasons against a military draft as you will read later‚ but first I will explain what a military draft is in case you don’t know. A military draft is a way to fill in the areas where volunteering doesn’t fill and when you get a license you have a number that goes with you and during a draft there will
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Starting in 1940‚ all men that were citizens of the United States between the ages of eighteen and sixty-four have been required to register for the military draft under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The draft has been used as a backup system for the United States military until 1973‚ when the Vietnam War ended. With the Vietnam War and the use of the draft‚ many people started to question the effectiveness of the Selective Service System. However‚ despite this‚ all men have been
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Women in Combat Should They Stay or Should They Go? Women have not always been allowed to serve in combat roles in the United States Military. Thus changing throughout history makes a big difference on how people look at women serving in combat roles. Women being able to serve in combat may require them to sign up for the Selective Service. Women having to do so may also make them feel pressured to join the military if there is a draft that comes upon the United States anytime in the future
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With long‚ drawn-out wars in Iraq and Afghanistan‚ regularly scheduled deployments to other areas of the world‚ and tensions between the U.S. and Iran threatening to ignite another war‚ our military is spread too thin. For our military to complete its mission of defending our country effectively‚ it is obvious that more personnel are needed. One way to ensure the military is not under-manned would be to reinstitute the draft. Reinstituting the draft would ensure the military an unlimited supply
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