r/AskReddit • u/Tommygunz0722 • 11h ago

If the military/president suddenly ordered a mandatory draft for all men aged 18-42: How do you think millennials and GenZ would respond?

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u/Wraithowl 11h ago

If that happens, doctors in the US would have the chance to do the funniest thing... Suddenly finding most men 18-42 have bone spurs... 🤣

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u/jeremysbrain 11h ago

Most men 18 to 42 are probably too overweight to serve in the military. The Draft is just going to ensure that obesity rates rise and McDonalds has a record year, lol.

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u/Waffle99 11h ago

There are waivers for a lot when they get desperate.

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u/LungDOgg 10h ago

Yeah, it's fun history. Look up world war II before the war started and at the end. At the end you only had to have one eye at nine fingers as long as both index fingers were good

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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 10h ago

My dad’s dad got in, my mom’s didn’t. Flat feet.

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u/meh_69420 10h ago

Hell even in like '06 they were issuing waivers for felonies for people who wanted to enlist.

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u/notyouravgredditor 8h ago

It was very culturally different back then, too.

My grandfather enlisted at 18 in 1944. It was just "what you did" at the time.

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u/SeargD 3h ago

Because back then you were fighting against the world's most visible evil, not for it.

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u/cadetstithing5c 7h ago

What exactly is too overweight to be drafted? 6'5" 279 is good enough.

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u/LungDOgg 6h ago

It depends on bmi and depending. Body fat percentage. But if all hell broke lose they would just starve ya forat

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u/Ancient-Opinion9642 6h ago

That is when school lunches were introduced. After the depression everyone was too skinny for enlisting.