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Flunking out wouldn't mean getting drafted into the army in the US anyway, the waiting list to join has been setting records for a few years now[0] https://abc

• after_care 5y ago
  Flunking out of college did mean getting drafted during the Vietnam and Korea wars.
  • thr0wawayf00 5y ago
    ...which were 50+ years ago. Much of the world was very different back then.
    • earleybird 5y ago
      In some ways the world is very much the same; just more of it.
• Animats 5y ago
  (2010)
• Lammy 5y ago
  It's even worse if you look at what types of recruits they target https://newrepublic.com/article/156131/military-views-poor-kids-fodder-forever-wars https://newrepublic.com/article/156131/military-views-poor-k... (https://archive.ph/9lYDQ https://archive.ph/9lYDQ) (2020) > This week, Anthony Clark, an Air Force veteran and Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois, noted how deeply embedded this trend is in American military service, detailing how he, his brother, father, and grandfather were all drafted or enlisted because “poverty is the draft.”