re: Is it time to reconsider mandatory public high school education?

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How about 2 year mandatory military service

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This terrible idea always comes up. Last thing we need right now is military coping with incompetent unwilling conscripts. Go back and look at the toll the draft took on the Vietnam era Army. This often gets promoted by those that either never served or did so decades ago and look back fondly and think it is the solution for all of America's youth. Let the teachers teach and the military concentrate on the profession of arms. 2 year enlistees are of no value added (actually a significant resource drain) to the modern services which is why Germany and others have cut their programs.

Besides, I dont want a government with the power to involuntarily take years of citizens' adult lives unless the nation is under an existential threat requiring mobilization of society.