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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (185854)	4/28/2006 1:36:43 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But I would turn them loose younger than you would do and I disagree with the idea that there should be a one-way transaction in a state-run compulsory community service. Oh.. it would hardly be "one-way". I also propose that for every year of sucessfully completed compulsory service (no discipline problems), they receive a year of free college/tech school at any institution where they can pass the entrance exam. On top of that, they will be eligible for automatic student loans to pay for the remainder of their tuition. And for those people who seek a delay on their national service in order to obtain medical or teaching degrees (or other related public service skills), upon completion of their service, they will receive forgiveness on the proportion of their student debt. Anyway.. I think that's a pretty good reward for doing their national service, and they learn obvious socializing and job skills during those two years. And how do we pay for all of this? I believe the savings we'd achieve by not paying the (relatively) high paying salaries of the all-volunteer military (including all those benefits) and requiring all those performing national service to live on base, we'd not only cover the cost, but probably also be able to provide a pay raise to the professional military cadre (E-5 and above) that we rely upon to mold them into soldiers. Hawk