Ken
NR
McCain has refused to sign on as a co sponsor as has every Republican except Hagel, Collins and Snowe.
I think it is a small start on the situation. We can either have national service for all, of which military can be one of the choices, or we can have an all volunteer force that is not treated as “at-will” employees to be thrown away when no longer useful. There are many dangerous jobs but the current military is being decimated by officer resignations and early retirement as well as abuse of the national guard and reserve system for an elective war any student of history would have recognized as foolish and counter productive.
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
— Rudyard Kipling