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**Shemker394** · 09-25-2011, 07:56 AM

Sounds like a good idea to me, thought I'm hesitant to agree with everything. I've always believed that reservists and Guardsmen should outnumber active duty in peacetime. Unless we get an outbreak of WWIII or some other conflict of biblical proportions, then I see no legitimate reason to have so many active duty personnel. What I didn't agree with however, and this is moot now since it was shot down anyway, was closing the Selective Service. That should be in place permanently, in peace or war.

Except you forget that there are no jobs waiting for these folks in the civilian sector. They will collect their 2 years of unemployment checks and then what?

09-25-2011, 07:56 AM	#10
Shemker394 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 492 Senior Member	Sounds like a good idea to me, thought I'm hesitant to agree with everything. I've always believed that reservists and Guardsmen should outnumber active duty in peacetime. Unless we get an outbreak of WWIII or some other conflict of biblical proportions, then I see no legitimate reason to have so many active duty personnel. What I didn't agree with however, and this is moot now since it was shot down anyway, was closing the Selective Service. That should be in place permanently, in peace or war. Except you forget that there are no jobs waiting for these folks in the civilian sector. They will collect their 2 years of unemployment checks and then what?
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