The wars of the future will be between big ass companies using drones, espionage, hacking, assassins, etc. it won't involve us poor commoners anyway.
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Glad I'm not in high school anymore. But this is kind of like in line with how schools prep you for getting used to being shuffled around because after school, you're likely going to end up in a job that's going to function similarly. So now instead of JROTC people bothering you in high school (like mine did) to recruit, now you're going to have the government under Trump being like "we NEED you" and you've got no choice but to go.
Isn't this like a preface setting for a draft? Sounds like it to me. This all says it's a draft without trying to say or feel like it's one.
Can we do something about making the Selective Service more equitable? Why is it that Men are the only ones that have to register for the draft? We have plenty of women serving in the armed forces, make everyone have to register.
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Why do you think they hate birth control and abortion so much? They want cannon fodder, and desperate people who will work for starvation wages.
Wouldn't private schools apply too with the voucher system? Or is that only meant to stay on the state level?
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I took the ASVAB way back in the 90's. IIRC it was mandatory then too.
I taught in a district where it was mandatory to take the ASVAB. My principal said fine... "All tenth graders take the ASVAB".
Recruiters can only access students if in grade 11 and 12. (? Probably it's about the age for enlisting)
Best administrator I ever had.
It was optional for us in the 90s. I took it to get out of class and what a terrible idea that was. I had recruiters hounding me for months.
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lol you know they're still accepting the ones who got "draw a circle around the triangle" wrong
There's always openings in front line infantry!
Good fucking luck. Trying to get schools to give any standardized test is like pulling teeth, entire states have given up on the idea.