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Today’s question:
QUESTION: Would you hide your kid(s) from a military draft?
Talk about it….
Yes
No
Hell yeah… I’m not contributing to a human grocery store. Ain;t that fresh?
There are already so many different wars this country needs to fight in here. We hard working citizens are so unprotected, but they make us believe otherwise. But I would not want any of my kids to be a part of any type of draft……
No, I’d go the “bone spur” path to avoid the draft. Tried and proven method.
Up until 20 years ago, I wouldn’t.
Now I would.
What kind of question is that!
Our Daughter is past the age of Draft.
Our Son-in Law retired 20 years from Coast Guards 3 years ago.
If I had a kid that could be drafted, I would recommend them to join a branch.
As a young woman, in the late 70’s, I thought about joining, …didn’t know which though.
Kind of, … If You can’t beat them, join Them, … but in a good way.
Hell yeah. I’m rather have my kids stay home and party. All the other gung ho kids can go fight and I could careless.
That is a hard question to answer. First of all to be drafted you have to be 18, so that is an adult, and the parents no longer have any power. It would depend on how my child feel about it, and what was going on at the time.
During the sixties and the Vietnam war (my generation) I would probably be very sympatic if my child came to me and told me they didn’t want to be drafted. One the other hand if it was after 9/11 not so much. Of course there were no draft, but I would be supportive if my child wanted to join up, but I would also understand and probably feel relieved if they decided not to.
My kids have aged out and the grandkids have also. Ask me again in about 15 years when the greats are old enough.
I have a daughter, and women are not required to register with the Selective Service System. If I had a son, I would leave it up to him to decide if he wants to serve. I enlisted into the US Marines because I was young and gung ho, I wanted to serve my country and fight against Communism. I lost several good friends in Vietnam, one of them was a childhood friend who enlisted with me. I also have some very good friends that are still alive today because they dodged the draft, and I say “good for them!” I hold no animosity towards draft dodgers, they understand whether they are made with the “right stuff” or not, and if they are not, then I wouldn’t want them serving alongside of me.
I avoided the draft by enlisting in the army. As a result, I now get a free restaurant meal on Veterans Day.
No…. they would have to be 18 yrs old and they better have sense whether they want to go or not.
Strong Second Amendment protection would ensure that we’d never need a draft. That was the point.
Nope. Few things would make me prouder than for my kids to step up for their country in our time of need.
With that said, I’d encourage them to earn an officer commission by completing a college ROTC program FIRST and then enlist in a branch with the lowest probability of direct combat (i.e., in descending order, USAF (ex-flight crew roles on fighters or bombers) USCG, USN).
Kids that get busted for fighting or domestic violence are perfectly suited for a marine corps infantry deployment.
The American national security state and military industrial complex have different ideas than I as far as just and necessary war goes. If you join, you run the risk of being deployed to fight for the maintenence of the American mercantile empire, and I personally don’t think that is worth losing loved ones over. After 20 years in Afghanistan, what was accomplished by the loss of lives and dollars? Iraq is a semi-functional vassal state of our enemy Iran. Libya is a failed state. Syria is still run by Assad. How many Americans died to reach this state, much less the lives of the locals we ended in the process? Who benefitted? I am in awe of everyone who stepped up and served, but our leaders owe them victories and peace, not a neverending treadmill of new wars that leave us right where we started.
If America was directly threatened by a foreign agesssor, it would be a different story.
Normally No, but as long as the Obiden $hit show is in charge, I would have to think twice about it.
Really! Geez, going into the service with Biden being Commander In Chief (The guy who called his Afghanistan withdrawal an “Extraordinary Success”) I’d have to say yes…. run for it.
Hmmm, if you are a trans would you get to opt out?
This is a tough one. My dad was drafted to Vietnam, didn’t want to go, but, he was a young man of honor and went anyway. I am still proud that he served honorably. I have kids of draft age. I’m not sure I would want them to go. Our supposed “white privilege” has had family members turned down for promotions, university scholarship’s, etc, among other things, so I’m not sure I want to sacrifice my children for a country who blames them for society’s ills.
No. I got a Draft Notice while in Danang in 1970. I told them to come get me since I had already been in the military for over a year.
…. I got #56 in the lottery (still have the paperwork and draft card) …. lottery stopped at 35 – if my # came up I was ready to go…. probably to join the Air Force or Navy first though
If your kid wants to be in the military then let them enlist. But basically draftees are pawns for the elite’s chess game. Don’t fall for it.
I would be proud if any of my children served – whether it was by choice or by draft. No, I do not want them to die. However, I respect all who have served this country.
I am not afraid that any will be drafted for a war outside of our borders, but am concerned with the current status of this country that they may need fight internally in this country to protect it from evil leaders.
No, but if they’re adults, I’d let them make their own decision. I was drafted out of the Air Force reserve in 1967, and fought that bit of chicanery for 2 years before submitting to induction. I thought the Vietnam war was wrong – the US prevented a people from choosing its own form of government – but served there anyway. Sometimes a government can make really asinine decisions and you can’t always support them, but you do what gives you peace of mind. I do believe every person in the US should serve in some national capacity to earn the right to call themselves an American. Just being born here shouldn’t mean you’re, given all the rights and privileges of our great nation; you should have to earn them. And I have to say, the US has never needed to be made great again! The malcontents are simply losers looking to blame someone or something for their failures.
EVERY kid should do two years in military,
who knows might dewimp some of them.
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No!
I served alongside a lot of draftees who served honorably, and I have no complaints about any of them. But I do believe that having an all-volunteer service is better than depending on the draft. I actually enlisted on my last day of draft eligibility. My number was something like 285, and Nashville only got up to 115 that year.
And there is the problem, today parents think “oh let someone else’s children do it”
I believe we should do as Israel does. That is everyone serves. I think children need to learn about giving something back to the community. A lot of children believes it all about me.
Yes I did get drafted.
I would have them join and test in first. But before that, they would be going to med school or something to avoid it.
Absolutely Not! As an AF veteran I met my husband at McCord AFB in Wa. in 1973
If it looked like a draft was imminent, I’d recommend enlisting first so you would have some control over your military service.
Served for 33 Years (half Active Duty, half Reserves.)
Best decision I ever made.
No, I wouldn’t hide them from the draft. I actually believe all 18 year olds should have to go through basic training….
Great comment .I would do everything possible to keep our kids and grandkids out of a draft to fight for a political war where politicians put so many rules and restrictions on our military that it’s more of a game than war. No more using brave young lives for money and political gain. If we are attacked in our country? Then we will all stay and fight.
I served in late 70’s early 80’s
Not an easy answer these days, fortunately they’ll never be another draft if they keep the troops off the ground, battle scenes like that were in Saving Private Ryan or Platoon will never happen again. With our superior military technology we can fight from 10,000 feet in the sky and keep ground forces to a smaller number of special forces. Pretty much the way Bin Laden was taken
Too late for my kids. My daughter has been in the Air Force (combination of active and reserves for 23+ years, still in the reserves. My son did 4 years in the Navy. My oldest grandson is in the Air Force. My second grandson has seizures and (I think) would be disqualified. My oldest granddaughter just wouldn’t work out. Trust me. My youngest granddaughter is only 5.
Depends on the war. If it’s a stupid war like Vietnam, then yes, I would support them evading the draft. I suspect we are heading towards another world war, in which we will have to fight for our allies’ survival as well as our own survival as a democracy. In that case, I would encourage them to serve if called. But it’s their own decisions to make as adults and I will respect whatever they decide to do.