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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy
it costs tens of thousands of dollars to train an American soldier for one year. Training millions of 18 year olds every year would cost billions of dollars. Exempting them from serving in wars would mean the training and money is basically going down the toilet.
Sending somebody to college costs anywhere from $30,000 to $200,000+. Providing a free college education to every 18 year old in the country would cost the US government tens or hundreds of billions of dollars every year, most of which would be waste.
Also any mandatory service program in the world has exemptions, and anyone from a country that has mandatory service knows that all kinds of corruption and unfairness springs up around those exemptions. The same thing would happen in America
its a bad idea, the USA should not have mandatory service or a draft under any circumstance (other than china or aliens invading us)
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I think many European countries have a pretty good thing going. I'm not going to pretend to understand the cost breakdown of their training etc, but a lot of them have to serve in the reserves. That combined with an option of doing any kind of public service term would be worth looking into.
Of course, it would likely mean a cut in the size and capability of the standing military in the US - not something I thing many people here would argue with.