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US pilots soon to report their skills?
can you cook? can you pilot an aircraft? are you into computers? you're the (wo)man! hmm, this one is only for (US-) citizens, methinks. This time the foreigners come better off. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/9/12032/9687 ---snip The proposed changes discussed in this meeting include: *(...) This non-combat skills draft would induct men and women ages 18 to 34. (...) * Create a single-point, all-inclusive database, in which every young person would be forced to send in a "self-declaration"--like an IRS form--of all of their critical skills, chosen from a long list o f several hundred occupations like the Air Force Specialty Code with Skills Identifier. The usual penalties of imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine would apply to all non-registrants. ---snap #m -- Somehow, some way, the Left trash talks "multi-national corporations" and "big corporations" as if they were messengers of evil, when, in fact, corporations represent the ultimate, perfect expression of communal ownership of capital. (Jay Honeck in r.a.p.) |
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I have serious doubts about someone's sanity if they honestly think that
there is going to be a draft soon. Talk about radical "Martin Hotze" wrote in message ... can you cook? can you pilot an aircraft? are you into computers? you're the (wo)man! hmm, this one is only for (US-) citizens, methinks. This time the foreigners come better off. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/9/12032/9687 ---snip The proposed changes discussed in this meeting include: *(...) This non-combat skills draft would induct men and women ages 18 to 34. (...) * Create a single-point, all-inclusive database, in which every young person would be forced to send in a "self-declaration"--like an IRS form--of all of their critical skills, chosen from a long list o f several hundred occupations like the Air Force Specialty Code with Skills Identifier. The usual penalties of imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine would apply to all non-registrants. ---snap #m -- Somehow, some way, the Left trash talks "multi-national corporations" and "big corporations" as if they were messengers of evil, when, in fact, corporations represent the ultimate, perfect expression of communal ownership of capital. (Jay Honeck in r.a.p.) |
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"Greg Butler" wrote in message ... I have serious doubts about someone's sanity if they honestly think that there is going to be a draft soon. Talk about radical As much as I dislike military operations I'd be willing to join if guaranteed in writing I would get to fly something that could go mach 2 and do not ground fighting. |
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"NW_PILOT" wrote in message ... "Greg Butler" wrote in message ... I have serious doubts about someone's sanity if they honestly think that there is going to be a draft soon. Talk about radical As much as I dislike military operations I'd be willing to join if guaranteed in writing I would get to fly something that could go mach 2 and do not ground fighting. Just don't get shot down... |
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"NW_PILOT" wrote in message ... "Greg Butler" wrote in message ... I have serious doubts about someone's sanity if they honestly think that there is going to be a draft soon. Talk about radical As much as I dislike military operations I'd be willing to join if guaranteed in writing I would get to fly something that could go mach 2 and do not ground fighting. Just don't get shot down... |
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"Greg Butler" wrote in message ... I have serious doubts about someone's sanity if they honestly think that there is going to be a draft soon. Talk about radical As much as I dislike military operations I'd be willing to join if guaranteed in writing I would get to fly something that could go mach 2 and do not ground fighting. |
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I have serious doubts about someone's sanity if they honestly think that there is going to be a draft soon. Talk about radical There is legislation for a draft, sponsored by (Democratic) Congressman Charles Rangell. It has a very few (Democratic) co-sponsors. Recently the Republicans tried to bring the bill up for a vote, so as to put paid to the (Democratic) rumors that Bush would bring back the draft in a second term. The Democrats accused the Republicans of playing politics. Well, so it goes, in Disney World on the Potomac. Just think about this for a minute: if there were a draft, who would train the draftees? The entire (volunteer) U.S. Army would have to stand down, be retrained, and then dispatched to build and staff the training centers. It would take a year, minimum, and in the meantime we would have no army for any other purpose. This rumor has been very popular on campus for two years now. As soon as the Good People realized that we were going to war in Iraq, they began promising their students that they would soon be drafted. That they were proved liars in 2002 hasn't stopped them from retreading the same lies in 2004. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Piper Cub Forum www.pipercubforum.com Viva Bush! www.vivabush.org |
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The Prez stated in the last debate.. there is no draft.. we need people who
want to be there and are technically capable to handle the "modern" tools... not just 1000s of grunts with guns BT "Cub Driver" wrote in message ... I have serious doubts about someone's sanity if they honestly think that there is going to be a draft soon. Talk about radical There is legislation for a draft, sponsored by (Democratic) Congressman Charles Rangell. It has a very few (Democratic) co-sponsors. Recently the Republicans tried to bring the bill up for a vote, so as to put paid to the (Democratic) rumors that Bush would bring back the draft in a second term. The Democrats accused the Republicans of playing politics. Well, so it goes, in Disney World on the Potomac. Just think about this for a minute: if there were a draft, who would train the draftees? The entire (volunteer) U.S. Army would have to stand down, be retrained, and then dispatched to build and staff the training centers. It would take a year, minimum, and in the meantime we would have no army for any other purpose. This rumor has been very popular on campus for two years now. As soon as the Good People realized that we were going to war in Iraq, they began promising their students that they would soon be drafted. That they were proved liars in 2002 hasn't stopped them from retreading the same lies in 2004. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Piper Cub Forum www.pipercubforum.com Viva Bush! www.vivabush.org |
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BTIZ wrote:
The Prez stated in the last debate.. there is no draft.. we need people who want to be there Who says the reservists/guardmen called up "want to be there." |
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Ron Natalie wrote in
m: BTIZ wrote: The Prez stated in the last debate.. there is no draft.. we need people who want to be there Who says the reservists/guardmen called up "want to be there." They WANT to be in the guard/reserve, or at least that's what they wanted when they either signed up to begin with, or took whatever promotion/college grant/etc. that got them there in the first place. While many may have had the impression that the guard or reserve was a free ride, nobody twisted thier arm. BeaglePig |
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