Toss out the all-volunteer military

I know this old man who always says that school should last year-round and everyone should participate in some sort of military job for at least a year. I have to agree with him, on the year in the military part at least:thumb:
 
MemberLG said:
Agree.

Recommending reading Starship Trooper, if you haven't already. It's written by a Navy grad. The similiar question was asked in the book also. If I remember it correctly, the answer was something along the line of serving doesn't necessarily make someone better but the system (where only people that served can vote) works.
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The author of Starship Trooper, Robert Heinlein, did suggest mandatory service but the service could include other than military service. He proposed in that book or another one that you couldn't vote until after you had completed your service.

Aside from being one of the greatest science fiction writers, Heinlein was your typical USNA grad. He served under Ernest King on the first aircraft carrier. He was a nudist, a practitioner of free love and open marriage (though I'm not sure if this persisted into his third marriage), and invented the concept of the water bed (probably more popular in the 1970s and 1980s than now). His politics evolved from his support of socialist Upton Sinclair to voting for Barry Goldwater.
 
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