Quote Originally Posted by Sport20
serve your 2 years and get on with your life...tell that to the ppl forced to enlist and that dont come back, or come back to nothing, with nothing and their lives ruined!
Lives ruined? Come back to nothing? What?

Go thru high school, turn 18, and do two years. That's it. Most people spend that time just d*cking around anyway. It's not like they're plucking you mid-career to go kill people. Hell, while you're in the military, they even give you incentives to go to college! Taking someone who is 42 years old, I can understand the problem in that.

I think that every able citizen should serve a mandatory 2 year service immediately after high school or upon turning 18 years old. This way you don't really have any obligations or anything else to keep you out. You can still go to college or whatever and if you think that the military isn't for you after that, then get out. You'll still only be 20 and have every opportunity to make the life that you want to live.