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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (13056)10/15/2006 8:23:17 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
"I can tell you right now that our voluntary military does NOT represent a "cross section" of American youngsters.
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our military is VASTLY disproportionately made up of kids from low income and low education families.
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That's why I say we should reinstitute the draft."

The draft is not off the table, but it is not currently necessary. We have excellent recruits who are proud to wear the uniform of their country.

Many of them are like my nephew. He was born of an upper middle class family. He was a straight A student. Then, he fell into the wrong crowd, and ended up dropping out. His father fired him. After failing out of community college he found the Marine recruiting station. He owns his own very profitable business now. I believe the Marine Corps saved his life. If you only heard part of his story, you might believe he was the kind of person that you believe is disproportionately represented.

Oh, and BTW Raytheon paid for his college degree, he graduated near the top of his class.
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