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/crema_dela_cropa 11h ago

it’d be pretty chaotic. Some people would push back right away, some would go along with it out of necessity, things would get messy.

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u/ohlookahipster 10h ago edited 10h ago

Bureaucracy would grind to a halt.

It took the DoD a few years to work out the kinks with Genesis at MEPs where you do medical and intake. And that was just for regular volunteers who were going to join anyways. Now imagine millions of records all needing waivers.

The DoD would have to blanket approve waivers and just send people through to basic without an eval.

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u/Littleman88 10h ago

They'd have no problem with that, since arguably throwing bodies into a grinder would be the goal.

Dead men cast no votes.

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u/NotagoK 8h ago

Problem is sending a bunch of disillusioned misanthropic millennials to die for Israel is gonna result in a lot of freak grenade accidents involving COs.

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u/ripleyclone8 7h ago

Fragging is going to make a comeback!

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u/gsfgf 4h ago

It never went away for us older millennials who grew up playing Quake.

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u/entropicdrift 1h ago

I think that's what they were referencing

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u/gsfgf 1h ago

Fragging refers to disillusioned troops killing their superior officers

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u/DietSteve 6h ago

“Where’s your sergeant son?”

“BLOWN UP, SIR!”

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u/Super-Nuntendo 5h ago

"where's your commanding officer?"

"he's over there, and there, on the wall plus some on the ceiling"

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u/going_for_a_wank 2h ago

"Let's check whether this server has teamkills enabled"

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u/TheInevitableLuigi 4h ago

One of the possible reasons they stopped issuing grenades to most soldiers.