What would you do if you got drafted?

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2004-04-22 01:23pm

A Senatorsaid yesterday that the United States may have to reintroduce the military draft. So how would you feel if YOU got drafted? Proud? Pissed off? Depresed?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-04-22 01:28pm

Eh, I'm too old for it, (26 now) But I'd go. I'd try to get tanker or something, too. THIS time, I'm gonna get to blow shit up, Come hell or high water, By gum, by golly. Plus, I got nothing to leave behind, nothing to come home to. Free spirit so to speak. I die, my daughter gets 100k. I win either way. If they allow me, I'm gone. Gone like last tuesday, man. *poof*

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-04-22 01:44pm

Grudginly do it and be depressed, probably.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-04-22 01:59pm

Get fucking pissed and try and learn Arabic. I have a talent with learning new languages, and I might be able to get a post printing a newspaper or something...

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-04-22 02:05pm

I'd grudgingly accept, but it's a moot point, because A) The draft will never come back (this issue pops up in Congress all the time, but nothing ever happens), because the Joint Chiefs and the Seretary of Defence both think it's a bad idea, and B) I'm not an American

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Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-04-22 02:08pm

I would either enlist in the Navy before I was drafted or I would fail the draft because of my being out of shape.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-04-22 02:09pm

i'd accept it grudgingly. If i were single and didn't have a morgage and a car payment, I'd proudly serve. Either way i'd try for a posting in Afghanistan so i could do something meaningful.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-22 02:11pm

I'd plead insanity and attempt to convince them i wasn't mentally fit to be drafted. Either that or fail the physicals badly.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2004-04-22 02:14pm

I'd act queerer than the queer eye guys.

Naw, I'd go, as long as I get to be in the invasion of Aus...I mean uh...North Korea?

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Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2004-04-22 02:29pm

I'd happily go... and guess what? I'd just have to walk in, prove that I'm deaf, and walk out.

Interesting story here... back in the Vietnam era, this deaf guy was called up for the draft. Now, he was a fluent oralist, and could lipread very well, so at first they didn't believe that he was deaf. Finally they told him he could go-- but as he was walking through the door, someone called his name, and he just happened to turn towards them at that moment! The poor guy had quite a time gettin' outta there after that, I can tell ya...

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-04-22 02:37pm

I wouldn't be happy about it, but I'd do my duty. My grandfathers survived 4 years fighting the Nazis, I can deal with 18 months in Iraq.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-04-22 02:46pm

I'd laugh.

Prior service so I'm exempt
Only a couple of months away from being too old for regular enlistment without a waver.
Wouldn't be medically qualified for duty anyway

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-04-22 02:47pm

closet sci-fi fan wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:I'd plead insanity and attempt to convince them i wasn't mentally fit to be drafted. Either that or fail the physicals badly.
All that effort wouldn't be neccessary. With the current policy, just tell them you're gay.

Wouldn't it be obvious?

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-04-22 02:51pm

Elheru Aran wrote: Interesting story here... back in the Vietnam era, this deaf guy was called up for the draft. Now, he was a fluent oralist, and could lipread very well, so at first they didn't believe that he was deaf. Finally they told him he could go-- but as he was walking through the door, someone called his name, and he just happened to turn towards them at that moment! The poor guy had quite a time gettin' outta there after that, I can tell ya...

These days they have hearing test they have hearing test where they just plug you into a bunch of stuff and they can tell if you can hear or not. They don't start with those but if they need to find out whether your faking or not they will run that test.

A bunch of guys I knew ended up having to do that for their discharge physicals.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-04-22 02:56pm

Tell them to go fuck themselves quite frankly.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-22 02:56pm

The draft comes up every Congressional session. Last time it was a bunch of Democrats sponsoring the bill and everybody on this board was screaming bloody murder. Nothing will come of this.

But if it came down to it, I'd proudly serve. I'd likely only barely pass the physical, though...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-04-22 03:35pm

Senators have been pushing for a draft since 1973 and always claim its necessary for one reason or another. Senators push for lots of piles of bullshit the world round. But anyway, I'd volunteer before a draft was acutally necessary so I could chose my service. Though I also suspect I'd be rejected for several medical reasons.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-04-22 04:13pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:Senators have been pushing for a draft since 1973 and always claim its necessary for one reason or another. Senators push for lots of piles of bullshit the world round. But anyway, I'd volunteer before a draft was acutally necessary so I could chose my service. Though I also suspect I'd be rejected for several medical reasons.

I can't believe this is around again?

Anyway, like Tyroc, I'm prior service so I don't count, plus I'm rapidly approaching critical age.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-04-22 04:17pm

If I saw that the draft was going to be instated in full force, I'd volunteer so I could at least choose what I wanted to do to an extent.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-04-22 04:17pm

I'd burn an effigy of w and move to canada. But since i'm 14 i don't think it's much of an issue at this point...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-04-22 04:20pm

The link won't open up for me. Which Senator is this, is it Rangel again? Is he still flogging that dead horse?

In any case, at this point, I would grudgingly accept and serve proudly. If I was 17, however, and I knew a draft was going to be instated, I'd sign up voluntarily. It would be a huge pain in the ass right now, though.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2004-04-22 04:52pm

I probably wouldn't pass the physical. Shoddy eyesight, overweight, poor motor control, all that jazz.

Super-Gagme · Post by **Super-Gagme** » 2004-04-22 05:09pm

Only child, in the UK and a student. I doubt I would even be called if they had a draft. (by in the UK I mean I live here, very much a US citizen)

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-04-22 05:32pm

Yo hablo espanol.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-04-22 05:42pm

Several possibilities exist.

1) I go, grudgingly.

2) I go, on the condition I get the biggest, most bad ass personal infantry weapons the army can provide.

3) I claim I'm homosexual and try to sleep with the guy

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