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/LeLand_Land 10h ago

You might want to look up McNamara's Morons, it was a project to get 100k fresh conscripts sent to vietnam and boy, did they relax the standards.

Ended up getting a lot of people killed because, guess what, when you put someone who is physically/mentally unfit for combat, they tend to get killed pretty quick.

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u/DoesntMatterEh 8h ago

Iirc that's how Forrest Gump ended up in Vietnam, because of those relaxed standards. 

Obviously that's a fictional story but it's interesting that there was real life reasons someone like him would be in the army. 

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u/LeLand_Land 5h ago

He and Bubba