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The military disagrees with you. Precedent has already been set with this.
Won't happen. The services don't want somebody 10 years later after all that mental training and conditioning. But there is a way around it. If a player in whatever sport declares for the draft early and drops out they don't have to serve if they don't graduate...if I remember correctly.
I said it earlier but every one skipped it. They get put in the reserves and serve their time on the off season.
I think they can opt out by repaying everything/all expenses involved in their education and any signing bonus they initially got from the military.
That wouldn't work either. A reserve/ guard soldier needs a certain amount of time on duty for a year. Also, yearly training requirements are needed beyond just individual training on a yearly basis, so this proposal wouldn't work either.
Its not a proposal, this is what they do. David Robinson was in the Naval Reserve and did his time on off season. The yearly requirements are one month a year. There is also what they call the IMA program which is fairly new and you get to pick when and where you want to do your reserve time. Pretty good deal from the folks I know who do it
Robinson's case was completely different and back in the 80s, a lot has changed. While on paper that might brief well, but it is a complete and total disservice for the command to which they would belong to and the Soldiers that would be serving underneath them.
Its just how the reserve works. They come in and you have to retrain them on everything and then they leave shortly after getting spun up. Not a big fan of it but its the big picture thing of having a manpower source you can call up in times of emergency.
swilkerson. If it was most anybody other than Trump I'd give him or her the benefit of doubt, but with The Donald I have no doubt this was a political decision. This is a guy who wrote The Art Of The Deal in the middle of losing more money over the 80s than any other private citizen. He's the guy who said he didn't like John McCain because he preferred soldiers who didn't get captured. Last but certainly not least he's the guy who had his father bribe the family doctor to say Donald had bone spurs to get out of service.