What would you do if a draft were reinstated?

[Griever]

(Thanks to Stewie for the topic :) )

After the posts in the other thread, I was curious to see what other members of the board would think and do if the draft were reinstated.

On the issue of having a draft- I feel it would dilute the skills and morale of the army, so I think that many of those drafted should serve in a civilian corp and assist troops as best they can.

But if it were instituted I would do nothing since I'm already in the military. :D

[Spastic Minnow]

Even if I didn't have a handful of dehabilitating traits I might still be able to fall back on religion. I'm Mennonite... not a tremendously faithful mennonite but one none-the-less. My father was also a college student and then source of family income during the vietnam period but he's never talked about worrying about the draft so I think if he needed to he could've fallen back on it. In WW2 Mennonites, Quakers, and other objectors served in in the Civilian Conservation Corps and did a lot of good for the country so I'd say your idea of drafting people for domestic duty is a decent idea, but really, anyone drafted wouldn't "want" to go to war, so who would you have left? If all else failed, move to Canada, go to jail, whatever. The Draft is not something I believe in, especially in such fouled up wars as the one we're fight now.

[Eddie G.]

First off I never agreed with the war at all. And if I had been drafted to invade Iraq I would be living in Canada. However the soilders in Iraq are no longer invaders (don't get me work I respect them and love them, but we did invade Iraq) but are peace keepers. And is it not unfair for me to choose to take an action that might kill my Iraqi or American brothers and sisters, just because I'm bitter to my Preseident? As someone who really is likely to be shipped out if there is a draft, it is tough. In other situations I might not fight, and other situations I would, but this is a really tough situation that I hope not to be in.

[Delthayre]

Well, firstly I'm not a terribly desireable candidate for soldier. I'm quite fat, although very healthy otherwise (good blood pressure, cholesterol et cetera) and I could correct the stituation quite effectively once I was forced past about a half-dozen problematic psychological hang-ups.

More serious is my terrible vision in my right eye. My left is is 20/20, but my right eye is 20/30 even with 1/8" thick high-powered prescription lense (it's some sort of high-tech plastic lense, my old glass lense was considerably thicker).

If I were still somehow drafted, I would do as I have said before. I would refuse to consent to the draft and then cooperate with my likely arrest and trial the accept the consequences.

[EinBebop]

Buy a gameboy to take with me.

[Stewie]

I would volunteer for the Marines Corps. I wouldn't want to join the military as a draftee.
Since I'm already in college, and I like the idea of being an officer, I'd go into the Platoon Leaders Class or the Officer Candidates Class. Or if that didn't work, I'd sign up and get shipped off to San Diego.

Buy a gameboy to take with me.That's the spirit!

[Griever]

I would volunteer for the Marines Corps. I wouldn't want to join the military as a draftee.
Since I'm already in college, and I like the idea of being an officer, I'd go into the Platoon Leaders Class or the Officer Candidates Class. Or if that didn't work, I'd sign up and get shipped off to San Diego.
That's what I'm about to do in July. But after you apply, you have to be selected by some board. (And meet the strict physical standards)

I'm glad I was selected, but I hear I'm in for six weeks of hell. :shrug:

[Stewie]

That's what I'm about to do in July. But after you apply, you have to be selected by some board. (And meet the strict physical standards)

I'm glad I was selected, but I hear I'm in for six weeks of hell. :shrug:Oorha! You're going into the PLC? Good luck.

[Elven Moon]

Move to Canada. I will NOT join any army :/

[Delthayre]

Move to Canada. I will NOT join any army :/
That loophole has been closed.

[Allen's Nickname.]

Move to Switzerland.

[randomguy]

Move to Canada. I will NOT join any army :/
Sorry, but Tom Ridge has prepared for that contingency. Canada won't accept draft dodgers. Or such is my understanding.

Really, it's all circumstantial. If the conflict was one that presented a genuine threat to national or global security (such as a WWII scenario), then I'd be willing to fight just as soon as I were asked too. But if the conflict was the Iraq situation, or something similiar to it, then I'd have a tough time making a decision. There are powerful arguments both for accepting and rejecting the draft in that scenario... so I'd have a lot of thinking to do. More than likely, I'd take Del's route and face the consequences. That's really the most respectable thing you can do.

I couldn't opt out of military service due to physical requirements, either... I have 20/15 vision in both eyes, already meet the running time requirements, and exercise at least an hour each day. I rock climb, I cycle, I swim...I'm fit. I'm really short and unimposing, though... maybe I could cook or something.

That being said, I figure it's pretty unlikely that a draft will happen before I hit maximum age. I'm no military expert, but I imagine that the military does its job about ten times better when those in it actually want to be there. I'm sure they're far more efficient and effective as a volunteer force.

[zmanjz]

you know, there's only two outcomes to this

1. you accept the draft, and either support it, or fight pollitically to end it

2. you commit a Crime and dodge it.


since those are basicly the only two available options, and Toonzone does not support the planning of any conspiracy to commit a Federal Crime,

I dub this thread Closed.


(EDIT: that being said, I see no problem if someone starts a thread discussing what people "IN GENERAL" might do.) (HINT HINT)

(As a lawyer, it's a tightrope between discussing an Issue, and planning a future crime.)