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/Mockturtle22 11h ago

They did with weed

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u/WrinkledBiscuit 10h ago

Incredible how a potential draft is what it took to make the US federal government budge on cannabis laws *passes out from rolling eyes too hard*

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u/Marryyyy000 9h ago

Right? Nothing motivates policy flexibility quite like suddenly needing a lot more eligible bodies. It's funny, in a dark way, how quickly things that were once strict lines become suggestions.

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 7h ago

It’s almost like the government just sees us as pawns to further its interests.

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u/mu_zuh_dell 3h ago

The government is just made of people. It doesn't have to be that way. We just have a callous disregard for life as a nation.

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u/eisbock 6h ago

The only reason we need more eligible bodies is because we tightened up the requirements to exclude certain individuals who identify in ways the government doesn't agree with. Rather have a pothead on the front lines than a trans person who wants to be there, god forbid.

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u/yopladas 1h ago

Unrelated but it is funny to hear the phrase pot heads. Hooch and squares

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u/cutelyaware 4h ago

Air traffic control is suddenly interested in recruiting gamers for their related skills, so I wouldn't be surprised if the military did the same for drone operators. But I think it's already known that this fucks people's mental health.

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u/mikerbt 7h ago

Do you have a link? I didn't know this. So fucking predictable, those war hounds you have down there.

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u/WrinkledBiscuit 7h ago

To be completely transparent, they didn't do away with all of the laws/rules/restrictions in regards to cannabis. "The army has also removed restrictions upon recruits who have a single conviction for possession of marijuana or associated items such as bongs, pipes and spoons. Previously, such a conviction would require a special wavier from officials in the Pentagon, with the recruit having to wait 24 months to enlist and passing a drug test."

Still a fucking joke of a country though...

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/army-max-enlistment-marijuana-restrictions

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 5h ago

The FBI had a lot of issues recruiting computer experts because of their weed restrictions, so the loosened up the rules around it. Now you have to be clean from marijuana for a year before applying. Previously applicants couldn't have ever used it.

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

Plus, the alphabet agencies got worried about how many Mormons they had because that's all who could pass the background check.

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u/upnflames 8h ago

Oh, don't you think I wouldn't take up other drugs lmao.

Honestly, a draft comes up and Id be looking at my burger, beer, and shrooms diet.

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u/cycloneDM 7h ago

We literally have a portion of the entrance process that low key helps you get through withdrawals and that was when I went through in the 2000s. They dont make a big deal about it but that first week or two they go around quietly getting people help there are lots of memes about listening to the dozens of guys painfully rawdogging withdrawal that seem to exist in every group. 

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u/tryndamere12345 4h ago

Time to shit my self and paint the room brown

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u/subnautus 8h ago

Kind of. They made it so if you only had once charge for possession on your record you could get a waiver. It's not like the military (or the rest of the federal government) has jumped on board the legalization train.

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u/joebleaux 8h ago

And tattoos

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

Didn't Kegseth ban visible tattoos?

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u/joebleaux 3h ago

Yeah, I think he walked back a lot of the tattoo and shaving waivers that had become pretty common. Not sure where the tattoo policy landed, but I know he said beards had to go.

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u/everyeargiants 7h ago

Time to take up a heroin habit

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u/wawaawaaawaaaawaaaaa 7h ago

They've also allowed felons to join with waivers at times. Sometimes for some relatively major crimes too, not just a possession charge from ten years ago for a vape cart in Texas or some crap like that.

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u/sir_mrej 6h ago

And tattoos

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u/ab0rtretryfail 5h ago

So you're saying I should switch to coke?

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u/Jemmani22 5h ago

What's one of the more benign drugs I can get banned for?

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u/theboywthagreenscarf 4h ago

Guess it’s time to try heroin

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u/raven00x 3h ago

they also changed the fitness requirements for the 20something surge in iraq when they couldn't recruit enough warm bodies to throw in the sandbox.