If the reserve runs on 1-year terms, it needs 5 million new recruits a year. There are about 5.2 million 18 year olds.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Possibility #1: HRC proposes an overly-ambitious ambitious volunteer program, can't find enough people to staff it.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @St_Rev
a lot of countries which aren't fascist still have mandatory civil/military service (Austria, Finland)
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I think it's more likely she will make most federal student financial aid conditional on doing civilian service
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I think that would be pretty great. YMMV. What I don't think is that anyone's going to build an army out of it.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @4rafn
Godwin warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsarbeitsdienst … These things can turn quickly once the machinery is set up.
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Replying to @St_Rev @matthew_d_green
the USA already requires every man who wants financial aid to sign up for the draft
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Replying to @4rafn @matthew_d_green
Yes, which is already offensive. But there's no machinery to back it up right now: a new draft would take years.
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A Hillarycorps reserve would build that bureaucracy back up so it could pivot to the miltary in months or weeks.
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And they'd have the means to draft women too, this time.
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