Why cant we bring back National Service?

Question

For kids that hang around street corners till midnight when they have school in the morning. Or any kids who thinks he's not cool unless he has a dozen ASBO's. Boot camp might just teach them a bit of respect!!!

Answer 1

we have an army that is undeniably the best in the word I dont think these upstarts would enhance our forces in any way shape or form,they obviously dont like discipline or they wouldnt misbehave in the first place. at the first hint of a combat situation they would probably bottle it and scream for their mum. the forces need professional people who want to be there,and who actually care for Queen And Country. furthermore we should be taking parents to task for allowing themout till midnight after all they are the parents responsibility not ours.

Answer 2

I have to agree with previous answers. Take potentially-criminal young kids, give them physcial hardening and weapons training, then release them back into society after 2 years. Not recommended, frankly.

The real reasons are that its too expensive, there's no political willpower to do it, and the Armed Forces would resist it. They absolutely hated peacetime National Service (1948-63), because they spent all their time training a constant influx of recruits, who would be discharged back into civilian life just as they were becoming effective soldiers and accepting the cultural ethos of Army discipline. In any case, the Armed Forces are now far more technical than they were in the 1950's and early 1960's, and it would be difficult to find enough useful things to train people on. It's no longer just a matter of close-order drill and rifle practice.

With major operations going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus commitments elsewhere, its unlikely the Army, in particular, would have the spare capacity to cope with even a limited measure of National Service.

In fact, National Service, which existed from 1939 to 1963, wasn't just military service. It covered any state-directed service, including that in the Armed Forces, the National Health Service (from 1948), the Merchant Navy, industry (cf, the Bevin Boys), etc etc. The whole system was so complicated, with categories, exemptions, appeals, allocation, etc, that an entire Government Department was set up to administer it. This was the Ministry of Labour and National Service. That's probably another reason why no Government would consider it nowadays: it would be enormously expensive to run such a system.

Answer 3

I totally agree with you, we have a brat next door to us who is coming up to his 10th birthday and god forbid he doesn't get some sort of discipline in his life before his 11th birthday, his father has no control over him, he back chats and walks away, he makes any excuse not to go to school and says hes been bullied, likely story as half the younger kids round here have been bullied by him, he hangs round corners threatening people, a typical hoodie with attitude, well some of his attitude and aggression should be put to good use in some form of national service before he gets so far out of hand he ends up inside.

Answer 4

it is exactly what i say! Reintroduce national provider and supply them some spine! Knife crime in our cities is merely bl00dy staggering at present. national provider could accomplish that plenty greater for those young little ones than dance contests ever could. The "highway young little ones" that bypass on shows like Britain's have been given skills are no longer the form who bypass around assaulting people.

Answer 5

well look,, while the idea is a noble one, down here in my country it has now been turned into a political gimmick and i;ve seen a lot of young innocent souls being harmed and my mum's friend's son actually died at one of these boot camps..

so my response would be NO.. in so far as they are run the way they are been done down here...

Answer 6

Bring back boot camp and stop being a nanny state. Now you can't even smack your children without it being abuse - I had the slipper to my backside when I was young, hasn't done me any harm, I had it cause I was naughty.

Answer 7

WE don't need it.A child that has good parents have respect and are good. People need to spend more time at home with kids the thinking about themselves all the time.

Answer 8

Let me get this straight...you want to take the least socially responsible part of society, train them up to be super fit, teach them to kill & then turn them back on to the streets without a job to go to ?

B*gger that !

Answer 9

We can't bring it back bacause some do-gooder would argue that it would be a violation of their human rights

Answer 10

i agree but the apologists just want to wrap the little angels up in cotton wool.