America- Nearing a Draft?

[El]

Then I'd be a lesbian if they tried to draft me. 

I told a female friend of mine that if we both get eligible for the draft, we should get married.  Whatever works.

[Litigious]

They'd probably won't call women into the military to begin with anyway.

[Peter]

It's at times like this that it's good to be a left-handed gay Bulgarian midget.

[Litigious]

I dogded out of the military, and now I'm too old, and besides I'm an aspie lunatic, so they probably won't have me anyway. 

[ozymandias]

They keep trying to recruit me, and I'm 51,but, thats only because they need medical personnel BADLY.  My Pharmacist wife gets recruitment letters as well.  And she has a fused ankle from a car crash long ago!

[Litigious]

They keep trying to recruit me, and I'm 51,but, thats only because they need medical personnel BADLY.  My Pharmacist wife gets recruitment letters as well.  And she has a fused ankle from a car crash long ago!

Strange. Couldn't they pay medical personnel better, so that they didn't have to hunt them like that? 

[McGiver]

It's at times like this that it's good to be a left-handed gay Bulgarian midget.

though always a good time when ordering from the hotel concierge in vegas, baby, vegas.

[ozymandias]

They keep trying to recruit me, and I'm 51,but, thats only because they need medical personnel BADLY.  My Pharmacist wife gets recruitment letters as well.  And she has a fused ankle from a car crash long ago!

Strange. Couldn't they pay medical personnel better, so that they didn't have to hunt them like that? 

We're talking about the US military bureaucracy here, which is not all that diifferent from any military bureaucracy in any country.  Eventually you have all these generals and officers, parading around in their heavily medalled uniforms, going harumph harumph, eating well, living in luxury, while your common soldier, who puts his/her life on the line and his/her family are living in poverty can't make ends meet!  Our government is spending trillions on a missile defense system that is irrelevant and doesn't work, while our honored veterans are having their benefits cut and soldiers coming home are NOT getting the psychological services they need to make the transition back to civilian life or the medical treatments they need to recover from their injuries.  They couldn't pay me or my wife enough money to suffer having to deal with the moronic bureaucracy that the US military is now.  As it is now the doctors they attract now are med school failures or immigrants from other countries med schools.  True there may be some real medical personnel who have hearts and brains, but, they are subject to a system that doesn't give a rats ass about ethics, integrity or honor, just social climbing, ass kissing and obedience to mind numbing assinine rules!

I spent one year in Army ROTC in my freshman year of college and that was the worst year of my life.  I called my student commanding officer an asshole and left and never went back!

[Teejay]

Wish they could re-introduce conscription here, I will finally have a job which pays a decent wage. I would go as far as acting as NT as possible and denying my HFA to get into the military. I tried to join the military when I finished high school, but I disclosed my HFA in the application form, big mistake.

[ozymandias]

Wish they could re-introduce conscription here, I will finally have a job which pays a decent wage. I would go as far as acting as NT as possible and denying my HFA to get into the military. I tried to join the military when I finished high school, but I disclosed my HFA in the application form, big mistake.

See thats what sucks about the military establishment.  I know a hfa from the Island and he has a great career in the UK Airforce.  So you would probably have a decent career as well.  It just isn't fair, especially when someone is a willing recruit and has brains.  Yet if you used drugs and were some form of lowlife...you'd probably get in!  I'm sorry Teejay, it's not fair and I hope things go better for you!

[Litigious]

I might have been a TV-weatherman, if I hadn't dodged out of military service. I was supposed to have been an assistant to the meteorologist on a Swedish Air Force base, but I managed to get out of it. I hate taking orders, and this was even before I knew about AS at all.

[Callaway]

They keep trying to recruit me, and I'm 51,but, thats only because they need medical personnel BADLY.  My Pharmacist wife gets recruitment letters as well.  And she has a fused ankle from a car crash long ago!

Strange. Couldn't they pay medical personnel better, so that they didn't have to hunt them like that? 

We're talking about the US military bureaucracy here, which is not all that diifferent from any military bureaucracy in any country.  Eventually you have all these generals and officers, parading around in their heavily medalled uniforms, going harumph harumph, eating well, living in luxury, while your common soldier, who puts his/her life on the line and his/her family are living in poverty can't make ends meet!  Our government is spending trillions on a missile defense system that is irrelevant and doesn't work, while our honored veterans are having their benefits cut and soldiers coming home are NOT getting the psychological services they need to make the transition back to civilian life or the medical treatments they need to recover from their injuries.  They couldn't pay me or my wife enough money to suffer having to deal with the moronic bureaucracy that the US military is now.  As it is now the doctors they attract now are med school failures or immigrants from other countries med schools.  True there may be some real medical personnel who have hearts and brains, but, they are subject to a system that doesn't give a rats ass about ethics, integrity or honor, just social climbing, ass kissing and obedience to mind numbing assinine rules!

I spent one year in Army ROTC in my freshman year of college and that was the worst year of my life.  I called my student commanding officer an asshole and left and never went back!

You forgot the young doctors who join to get their expensive medical schools paid for and then they serve the required number of years in the military to pay it back.  I think it is at least one year of service per year of school.  My brother-in-law did that.  Now he is a cardiologist and at one time he was one of the military doctors assigned to Air Force One.  I know other doctors who got their school paid that way as well and the ones I have known have all been competent and caring doctors.

[Litigious]

In Sweden doctor students (like all students) get loans for 6 years. When they become specialists they can pay it back in a couple of year if they want to. But it usually is better not to, because of the taxation system. 

[Eamonn]

Well it is the middle of winter. It's a bit on the windy side here in SCotland too.

[ozymandias]

They keep trying to recruit me, and I'm 51,but, thats only because they need medical personnel BADLY.  My Pharmacist wife gets recruitment letters as well.  And she has a fused ankle from a car crash long ago!

Strange. Couldn't they pay medical personnel better, so that they didn't have to hunt them like that? 

We're talking about the US military bureaucracy here, which is not all that diifferent from any military bureaucracy in any country.  Eventually you have all these generals and officers, parading around in their heavily medalled uniforms, going harumph harumph, eating well, living in luxury, while your common soldier, who puts his/her life on the line and his/her family are living in poverty can't make ends meet!  Our government is spending trillions on a missile defense system that is irrelevant and doesn't work, while our honored veterans are having their benefits cut and soldiers coming home are NOT getting the psychological services they need to make the transition back to civilian life or the medical treatments they need to recover from their injuries.  They couldn't pay me or my wife enough money to suffer having to deal with the moronic bureaucracy that the US military is now.  As it is now the doctors they attract now are med school failures or immigrants from other countries med schools.  True there may be some real medical personnel who have hearts and brains, but, they are subject to a system that doesn't give a rats ass about ethics, integrity or honor, just social climbing, ass kissing and obedience to mind numbing assinine rules!

I spent one year in Army ROTC in my freshman year of college and that was the worst year of my life.  I called my student commanding officer an asshole and left and never went back!

You forgot the young doctors who join to get their expensive medical schools paid for and then they serve the required number of years in the military to pay it back.  I think it is at least one year of service per year of school.  My brother-in-law did that.  Now he is a cardiologist and at one time he was one of the military doctors assigned to Air Force One.  I know other doctors who got their school paid that way as well and the ones I have known have all been competent and caring doctors.

Well, I didn't quite forget them, but, I apologize if you were offended!