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Worried about my son being drafted
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Anonymous
| My son isn't far from the age that he needs to register for the selective service, and it seems like WWIII is breaking out. Not going to lie, I'm worried about the state of the world... |
Anonymous
| What’s happening? I don’t follow the news or politics, to keep sanity. |
Anonymous
You spend your time on the internet on DCUM to keep your sanity? 
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Anonymous
| Take this to the Political Forum. |
Anonymous
| There is Canada 🇨🇦 , there is the EU 🇪🇺 . Honestly, with economy, there is not a whole lot of reasons that a young person would want to stay . |
Anonymous
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My son is a dual French-US citizen. I think it's more likely he'd be called up by France due to a spillover of the Russo-Ukraine war than he'd be called up by the US. Americans have a very strong opposition to conscription because of the Vietnam War. A draft is very, very improbable here. And rather improbable in France too... but still, being a dual citizen, total odds are minuscule but non-negligible. For your son, OP, I think they're pretty negligible.
I have hundreds of items on my Worry List, and this is not one of them. |
Anonymous
Yes..I just avoid politics & current events completely. |
Anonymous
| He won’t be drafted. Plenty would volunteer. |
Anonymous
| Get him diagnosed with bone spurs. Problem solved. |
Anonymous
| A mental heath condition, especially if taking psychotropic meds, excludes them from enlisting. Mine has depression and anxiety and I hope that would be enough if a draft were reinstated. |
Anonymous
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Even if he were to be hypothetically drafted…
1) it would grow him a spine 2) you unfortunately couldn’t be drafted with him so maybe he could Learn to advocate 3) it would launch him into a career - only 1:3 jobs in the military are actually offensive / weapons system related so he could instead pursue medical, administrative or dozens of other enlisted personnel categories that would never see active combat Your fear of being drafted has reduced your family’s plight to that which was so eloquently described by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1 He'll be fine, even if he is drafted. The military is a fine place where you men and women can grow and become leaders & global thinkers. |
Anonymous
All of those MAGAs who said they were tired of fighting other people's wars? |
Anonymous
| There won’t be a draft, that’s crazy. The military absolutely would not want it. An all-volunteer force is so much easier to manage. Plus with increases in drone strike capabilities, we don’t need nearly as many “boots on the ground” anyway. |