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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (125985)12/1/2009 10:49:06 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 543150
 
Not to mention if it costs, let's say, $100,000 per soldier to have someone in the military and we put just 2 million teenagers in for a year, that's another $200 billion added to the military budget. Every friggin' year.

It's nuts. That's why no one has seriously mentioned the idea in decades.



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (125985)12/2/2009 7:38:08 AM
From: quehubo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543150
 
Reality is quite a bit different than your dated boomer view.

The military is able to raise its standards because of the quantity and quality.

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