No, service should be a choice instead of an obligation

People are more likely to do bad if they're forced into the military, many will grow too stressed or depressed to peform correctly for the military.

At least simple and short obligation to your country, just like in your family or friend group, should be required because it shows dedication, strength, and helps build capabilities and opportunities for having served. To create a minimum level of everyone having these strengths would greatly help the country and life as a whole.

Serving in the military trains the newer generations' discipline. They learn to be strong. It is also beneficial for everyone physically and will reduce rates of patients that are subject to illnesses caused by obesity.

The argument that military or national service should only be a personal choice overlooks the idea that citizenship already includes shared obligations. In a functioning society, individuals benefit from collective systems like national defense, infrastructure, and public safety, and those systems rely on people contributing to them. If service is purely voluntary, the burden of protecting the country often falls on a small and uneven portion of the population, frequently people from specific socioeconomic backgrounds. Making service mandatory distributes that responsibility more fairly acros…  Read mores society and reinforces the idea that national security and civic stability are collective responsibilities rather than optional contributions. In that sense, mandatory service is not about limiting freedom but about ensuring that the duties associated with citizenship are shared more equitably.

Under the present system of a volunteer military choice has left us with only 1% of Americans to know and learn the price of freedom. “Thank you for your service” is a cop-out from the people who haven’t served their country. SERVED their country is more than a word. No one will know what SERVED means not having served themselves. Having SERVED is a badge of owning America. No politician should be allows to run for office unless they have SERVED. MAS ( make America Strong).

If a kid is going to college, I don't think that should be put on hold. But kids who are already getting into trouble, a year or two in the military might do them some good, and get them off the streets and keep them out of trouble.

The present system of voluntary service has left the Department of Defense severely understaffed and contributed to our national obesity epidemic.

Service in the military should be a choices, say for a time of major war and men are needed or you are a criminal as punishment.

With voluntary servicemen dropping, in order to ensure a strong military force, the need for obligatory service is necessary

Serving in the military can provide people with real world skills that they will be able to employ in the workplace.

People who say this don't know how to defend their freedom and refuse to provide to the state only expectating the state to provide to them

There are terrorist forces in the international arena and history shows that they are capable of inflicting great damage to American infrastructures and the economy in the aftermath of their terrorist activities and the commitment of their crimes against the American people. In such situations, having a highly-trained paramilitary force to handle situations could prove in certain situations that threatened core American interests, and national security is a key component of this part.

National defense is in everybody's interest and the individual is part of the country, not the other way around.

The government should not compel someone through threat of force to commit murder for them. Instead offer better incentives to join, and work that provides meaning.

There are many children who take care of their parents and who's income is essential to the survival of the household and the people within. If service was mandatory and children were sent off to millitary bases, how could they support their family? It's almost tyrnaical for the government to exert that much power over it's people and to deny them the abillity to keep their family close should they desire it.

If you live in this country, people choose to protect you, so why shouldn't you show the same respect for your fellow citizens.

I think that it is our job to serve our country and I think in important way of doing this is by drafting

I do understand where people are coming from when they say it should be a choice but when the country is in danger and everyone wants to be passive about it and hope the problem goes away then we're screwed. I don't want to go into the military because I want to do other things with my life. That and I don't like being considered property of the government but if I really have to I will

it would make the country more safe due to all the cititzens having military experiance from attaks ,health issues and it would change citizens mental and phisical health

My hypothesis is that conscription has the following benefits:

1. Obviously, dramatically decreased military-spending by requiring fewer career military members; conscripts only typically receive necessary equipment, their quarters, food, and a small stipend, whereas contract soldiers receive all of the same necessities but also must be paid enough, both in terms of direct salary and post-service benefits, to justify signing up.

2. Having a populous in which most adults have served, have firearms training, and so on, means even post-service, the nation becomes far more difficult, if not impossi…  Read moreble, to conquer with traditional weapons.

What would happen if war suddenly breaks out? We don't have the trained men and woman to protect us from harm.

In times of peace or very little threat, Yes military service should be a choice. However in times of danger it can be very beneficial to the nation

The required military service would give them many options they didn't know they could obtain and teach them skills that elevate our communities

If no service should be a choice then the U.S. will soon be overpowered by another country like China or Russia and the U.S. massive military reputation will be ruined.

Yes military service should be a choice. However in times of danger it can be very beneficial to the nation.

If Military were an obligation, it would likely reduce the amount of domestic terrorism we face in this country.

If the U.S requires help from you, then it is the duty to respond because the government has done far more for you than you could ever do for it.

In times of peace or very little threat, Yes military service should be a choice. However in times of danger it can be very beneficial to the nation, I Would say it should be mandatory at that point.

The required military service would give them many options they didn't know they could obtain and teach them skills that elevate our communities

Historically mandatory service has done the things I have mentioned before, saying it should be a choice is a uninformed opinion that does not recognize its value