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Oh NO...They recalled Jamie back into the USMC!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 145446" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Witz, militarily speaking, our country (and its soldiers) have always done better when we didn't have the draft. However, it does require some advertising, campaigning and educational programs to entice people in to our military services. But it does mean, the people we have are there because they have chosen to be.</p><p></p><p>Australia had the draft for Vietnam and it was a PR disaster as well as still causing ill-feeling in a lot of those who were drafted. Some dirty tricks were pulled to make the draft publicly acceptable - since then we've had a lot more success with recruitment.</p><p></p><p>I suspect if we hadn't recently changed so drastically in Australia, we could be looking at the draft. Our new PM never wanted Australia in Iraq but has committed our troops to stay in Afghanistan as long as needed. We also have a lot of local commitment in our immediate region, especially with East Timor and at times the Solomons. I think it's the peacekeeping activity that especially attracts a lot of our people into the armed services.</p><p></p><p>We also have Army Reserve, aka "part-time army" which attracts a lot of recruitment. They are on permanent IRR. husband used to be in Reserve, they were also often used in times of natural disaster. One year they were doing a lot of flood rescue. He was on standby for Cyclone Tracy relief in Darwin but wasn't needed, thank goodness.</p><p></p><p>What happens to a person's life, when they get recalled like this? I assume Jamie has a job - will it get held for him for when he gets back, or someone decides he's not needed after all? Something like this could really SNAFU your career prospects.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 145446, member: 1991"] Witz, militarily speaking, our country (and its soldiers) have always done better when we didn't have the draft. However, it does require some advertising, campaigning and educational programs to entice people in to our military services. But it does mean, the people we have are there because they have chosen to be. Australia had the draft for Vietnam and it was a PR disaster as well as still causing ill-feeling in a lot of those who were drafted. Some dirty tricks were pulled to make the draft publicly acceptable - since then we've had a lot more success with recruitment. I suspect if we hadn't recently changed so drastically in Australia, we could be looking at the draft. Our new PM never wanted Australia in Iraq but has committed our troops to stay in Afghanistan as long as needed. We also have a lot of local commitment in our immediate region, especially with East Timor and at times the Solomons. I think it's the peacekeeping activity that especially attracts a lot of our people into the armed services. We also have Army Reserve, aka "part-time army" which attracts a lot of recruitment. They are on permanent IRR. husband used to be in Reserve, they were also often used in times of natural disaster. One year they were doing a lot of flood rescue. He was on standby for Cyclone Tracy relief in Darwin but wasn't needed, thank goodness. What happens to a person's life, when they get recalled like this? I assume Jamie has a job - will it get held for him for when he gets back, or someone decides he's not needed after all? Something like this could really SNAFU your career prospects. Marg [/QUOTE]
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