I don't understand something

NoDrama said:

You don't look over 45 years old to me. When stretched thin the draft age gets set to 45, just like in WW2 and WW1. You never served so I don't expect you to know these things.

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In those days it was ground warfare and the majority was based on troop strength. Today drones and close air support do the work of multiple units, if not battalions when compared to the WW's.

With our current active duty strength, the Guard and Reserves there will be little need for a draft short of a full on world war and even then the majority of that will be done by controllers dropping bombs with the ground troops just mopping up the aftermath!

NLXSK1 said:

You are an idiot...

The maximum draft age was 32. There is no draft anymore. How can you talk about something that is typical when it has not happened in decades?

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I never said there was a draft,learn to read. You also have not been following along with the discussion have you? Maximum draft age was 32? Next time try to have actual facts when calling someone an idiot. Look up the Burke-Wadsworth act of 1940.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1500
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940

NoDrama said:

I never said there was a draft,learn to read. You also have not been following along with the discussion have you? Maximum draft age was 32? Next time try to have actual facts when calling someone an idiot. Look up the Burke-Wadsworth act of 1940.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1500
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940

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After actually reading the article...

In 1948, a new selective service act was passed that required all men aged 19 to 26 to register and that made men aged 19 to 26 liable for 21 months' service, which would be followed by 5 years of reserve duty.

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So it is only up to 26 now... Congrats on proving me even more right than before...

Stupid argument, but whatever

After the United States entered World War II, a new selective service act made men between 18 and 45 liable for military service and required all men between 18 and 65 to register. The terminal point of service was extended to two years after the war. From 1940 until 1947—when the wartime selective service act expired after extensions by Congress—over 10,000,000 men were inducted.

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