The draft.

Aviator737

Aviator737

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All right, my apologies in advance if this comes as across as naive and stupid. But being 19 and with the possibility of a draft looming overhead, a question keeps bugging me, though I'm 99% sure of the answer:

If you're drafted, are there any opportunities whatsoever to become a pilot? No, I don't have a degree, and at this juncture only 28 hours. But let's say the draft started rolling when I had a two year and three or four-hundred hours. How about then? I understand there was great demand for pilots during Vietnam, and getting a slot wasn't very difficult.

Or if drafted, are you given any opportunities for positions besides infantry?

Perhaps MikeD could enlighten me.
 
You got a problem with the infantry, boy??

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Oh were a long, long ways from starting the draft. The same rules apply as to pilot selection in a draft as they do now. No degree, no fly, unless you are an enlisted crewmember or join the Army's WOFT program. Even then you still have to have some college.
 
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You got a problem with the infantry, boy??

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No, drill sergeant!

Nah, but seriously. There's nothing wrong with being a foot soldier, but I have to admit it'd be a little funner cruisin' on eight engines at FL350 in a B-52. I was just wondering if it were even a remote possibility. The military route is something I've tought a lot about, and if I just happened to get drafted, it might be a nice segue into being an airlift pilot. Know what I'm sayin'?
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You can be a civilian and fly for tons of companies. However, I don't know of any company where you can close with, engage, and destroy the enemy. Well, you can provide security for a contractor but it is not near the same. IMHO
 
All this draft talk is a complete line of BS!!!!
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America's military is an all voluenter force. That is what makes it so great! It will be a long, long, time before the military needs a draft. The only service not meeting it's recruiting goals now is the Army, but they are meeting their reenlistment goals. Belive it or not, the reenlistment rate among units deployed in Iraq is higher than the rest of the Army.

All the politictions who keep saying "bring back the draft" are just trying to get their faces on TV. Many people say that forcing everyone spend time in the military will be a positive force for our society. This sounds good at first, but it just isn't worth the damage it will do to our military.

All the heads of the military branches think this is a terible idea. If there is a draft, the terms of service will only be two years. Currently most enlistments are four years or more. Most people in the military spend six moths to a year in the training pipeline. Another year is spent learning their job in their units. That leaves two to three years where you are part of a unit, and are up to speed. If enlistments were only there for two years, then just when they had learned their job, they would be relased from the military.

The Soviet military used a two year draft, and their military SUCKED!!! In the late seventies the US decided to create a smaller, voluenter, profesional miltary. Our military has become the most powerful in the world, despite being being a much smaller portion of our population than the rest of the world.
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Personally I don't think the draft is as far from possible as many people think it is. I served in the army for three years and got out at the end of my enlistment. I've been out for two years and about two weeks ago I get a call from the military telling me I have seven days to either join the active reserves and pick a new unit or they will pick one for me. It is not that I mind going back into the military, it is just that I have made so many other plans. I am in school full time which I am trying to finish as soon as possible and I am trying to do my flight training. Now I have to take a semester off from school to go retrain in a new job since the reserves do not have my current job. The military is pulling soldiers from their last resource, the inactive reserves. The only other way to get more troops to fill the ranks in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere is to institute the draft. I hope it doesn't come to this. So many soldiers are already discouraged with the military having their deployments extended and having a stop loss enacted. If they begin to draft new soldiers the military will take a dive which will be very difficult to recover from.
 
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Personally I don't think the draft is as far from possible as many people think it is. I served in the army for three years and got out at the end of my enlistment. I've been out for two years and about two weeks ago I get a call from the military telling me I have seven days to either join the active reserves and pick a new unit or they will pick one for me. It is not that I mind going back into the military, it is just that I have made so many other plans. I am in school full time which I am trying to finish as soon as possible and I am trying to do my flight training. Now I have to take a semester off from school to go retrain in a new job since the reserves do not have my current job. The military is pulling soldiers from their last resource, the inactive reserves. The only other way to get more troops to fill the ranks in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere is to institute the draft. I hope it doesn't come to this. So many soldiers are already discouraged with the military having their deployments extended and having a stop loss enacted. If they begin to draft new soldiers the military will take a dive which will be very difficult to recover from.

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Just like "nam"
 
Yeah but that isn't the draft. You are still under your 8 year Military Service Obligation. They can call you back with no problem. It's when they start taking kids out of colleges or from the work force that you will hear about it.
 
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Speaking from personal experience with stop loss. There would be alot of worthless, bitter people if they were drafted

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True that!! I think a draft would be comical and very amusing!!
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I rarely say never, but I will now. Barring an attack of epic proportions (I'm talking WMD attack and maybe not even then), there will NEVER be a draft again. The ghost of Vietnam will not be brought back by any president unless he wants to commit political suicide.
 
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