Thursday, May 22, 2008
You plan on drafting who??
In an exchange sure to send ripples of anxiety through the all-volunteer military, the Senate’s senior defense spending member asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen if it is time to “consider reinstituting the draft.”
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, asked Gates and Mullen the question he said no one wants to ask: “Is the cost of maintaining an all-volunteer force becoming unsustainable and, secondly, do we need to consider reinstituting the draft.”
Inouye cited the ever-increasing pay and benefits paid to active and reserve service members, noting that it now costs an estimated $126,000 per service member.
Gates and Mullen both said they thought the current volunteer force was the finest the U.S. has ever fielded. Gates said he “personally” believes that “it is worth the cost."
Mullen was not quite as sanguine.
“A future that argues for, or results in, continuous escalation of those costs does not bode well for a military of this size,” he said, adding it the rising costs will eventually force the US to shrink the military, spend less on new weapons or to “curtail operations.” The question of pay and benefits for the U.S. military “is the top issue we need to come to terms with,” Mullen said.
This marks the first time a senior member of Congress has seriously discussed reinstituting the draft in almost two years. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, called for reinstituting the draft in November 2006. (Military.com)
I don't even know what the requirements for the draft draft would be but I know damn well if they tried to draft my ass I'd pull a Muhammad Ali... They can send my ass to jail before I fight for them against an enemy that does not and never did exist.
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I know i'm going....
TO JAIL
lol and I would/will be looking forward to the letters and boxes of treats and pics of u syrup glazed baddunkadunk
u watch family guy J? cause this one episode stewie and brian went to the army by mistake and they wanted to get out so they shot each oter in the foot, shit had me rolling, lmao anyway just a thought....lol
so you going to jail and imma send ya care package there with pics of syrup glazed asses and what not......
lmao yea I watch family guy but I haven't seen that one... yesterday I put on the one where Louis teaches sex education to the school and Louis was like "it's ok to have sex just protect yourself" and my ma woke up from her sleep and was like TAKE IT OFF!!
She hates family guy and that my lil bruh watches it religiously.
can you believe i been working all morning J???? gawd i hate it lol
and yeah family guy is the bidness me and the kids like it, they daddy hate that i let em watch it, my youngest don't get the sexual inuendos (sp) but my oldest do, and if it's too bad then they can't watch it, specially if quagmire ass on there trippin' how old is ya brother??? and how many siblings you got??? i have an older brother and an older sister so i am the baby, which makes me the favorite of the whole family by default.....lol
my bother is 14 and my sis is 17 so I'm the oldest! and we call my lil bro "The Golden Child" bcuz he can't do no wrong in my moms eyes.
LOL I noticed you was working you AND Bam Bam....
that's amazing
lmao the golden child, jealous much????? do you like being the oldest, and please don't tell me you like my brother was towards me to your baby sis, he STAYED running my boyfriends off lol....
and yeah they got us both working what kinda shit is that.....
yeah i like being the oldest. but nah i don't sweat my sister I let her do her thing but I let her know when it comes to all that.
LOL me and my sis like treating my lil bruh like Russy... remember when Angela and Joe kept bugging him and giving him wet willies??
lmao u was getting ya ass BEAT! lol I remember fights with my sis around that age but I can't remember why we fought.
And my sis has always been taller then most of the girls and she grew faster before them so I never had to get into any of her fights. My lil bruh basically been in Colorado most his life so he's never fought b4...
lmmfao why you word it like that, like you saying he has never had any fights b4 cause he live in denver, but if he lived anywhere else, he would have had 36,000 fights by now......that is killing me
its true... don't nobody try nothin stupid here!
I haven't fought since being here, there barely is fights in school here, I remmeber it was a fight atleast every week or other week in MD.
That's how i feel as well. I'd have no problem serving if i had to fight in a war that actually had value to it-