GI = "Government Issue".

The problem is that they are not being drafted to defend America, but to advance the financial interests of those who are enemies of Americans.
They are no more than cannon fodder to the uncaring sociopaths in D.C.
I won't be surprised if they are used to crush resistance by Americans to the state destroying what little individual freedom remains.

The draft was not in effect when I enlisted.
2. The risks were explained by my in-laws, uncles, siblings and parents...but boot camp was still a shock.

I can't adequately debate the draft. However, the defense of this country is the responsibility of all its citizens, and if that requires the conscription of its young men (as has been done since the Revolutionary War), I won't protest it.

Thanks for sharing that you voluntarily enlisted.
Were you free to say, "no thank you" without fear of being drafted?
Were the risks clearly explained to you?
If you made the choice with adequate explanation, without any threat,
and you freely entered into a contract for your labors at a stated rate
of pay and known risks, then you were not enslaved in that case.
That is not the case with the draft.
Has any tyrant been stupid enough to call a military draft as slavery
and expose his true intentions?
None that I am aware of.
To paraphrase a line from Benjamin Franklin in 1776
Calling a person who has been forced into servitude a free man is like calling an ox a bull.
He may be thankful for the honor, but he’d much rather have restored what’s rightfully his.

Your argument begs the question "Can slavery be voluntarily entered into?".

I voluntarily enlisted and served a total of 10 years, in which at no time did I ever feel I was a slave.

If someone could show me, anywhere in history, where mandatory military service, such as the Draft, was legitimately classified as "slavery" I might be won over.

I think so too. I have an Israeli buddy who served in their special forces. Badass guy. All shot up. In Israel is seems that pregnancy is the out for all those ladies who serve shoulder to shoulder. It's how my buddy met his wife. Haha....

Never fucking happen...

I don't have any "duty" to fulfill. Feels great. Don't owe anybody anything. All that said...I appreciate your service and the service of those who came before me. I would have done it in WWII. Not for the other wars. Not out of "duty". But, like my grandfather, wanting to kick some ass.

But, you've lost your freedom.

That's right

No, I provided counterexamples to disprove your argument that I have no idea. But if I am truly clueless, then I requested that you help me out instead of just shooting me down.

are you answering your own inquiries now?

Enlighten me.

For one, you accepted extorted money. US army funding comes from extorting old ladies (taxes). You assisted a gang in their raping and pillaging (invasions and such).

you dont have a clue if anything or what I did was wrong.

'Duty' is a psychologically manipulative term that is used by the state to brainwash their slaves into thinking that they owe something to the slave masters.

Your duty, if there ever was one, is to understand why what you did was wrong and to repent.

That's like saying you didn't want a gang to force you to be their cannon fodder slave, so you joined voluntarily instead to get into a less disadvantageous position.

How about defending yourself and killing them instead? Or maybe just avoiding it by running and hiding?

Participating in organized crime is not something that one should be proud about.

I think that all of those who got the student loan forgiven should go to the head of the draft line.

My husband served 20 years 3 months and 26 days in the U.S.Army. He was in Korea for the Conflict and visited Viet Nam twice "fighting Aggression in SE Asia." He did not feel women should be in combat. Service behind the lines okay but not in combat. He said it wouldn't work because men are too inclined to protect the female. They would be distracted. I think he was correct.

Well spotted CK! It is slavery. But by the "bogus" measure (16th amendment) the constitution sets itself against itself (as Claude-Frédéric Bastiat tells us -- the law has turned upon itself) -- AR to the rescue of those willing to think: "Contradictions do not exist! Check your premises."

I didn't have a choice in 1970, get drafted or enlist so I joined the Navy like my father, uncles and brother all did. I do not agree with women in the combat military but maybe shoving all this DEI crap down some throats will cause many to rethink this BS. There are plenty of duties in our military branches that every woman is capable of performing and some woman can be stone cold killers too. Equality swings both ways but Lord help us all.

Except for the fact that you were forced to do so and on threat of imprisonment you must follow all orders, give up your time (and perhaps your life) against your will.
Africans were taken against their will and provided room, board, and "benefits", and imprisoned if they refused to do as ordered.

I don't think it's slavery, if you're getting paid, room, board and benefits.

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The current crop worthless little bastards has gone right past burning draft cards to straight up insurrection. I did my duty....US Army '65 to '70. I enlisted and got into tech training....computer training. Two years in Bangkok was lotsa fun.

If you do not have the right to decide to join in any expedition the leaders decide to get into (war) then you do not own your life, the state does. It then follows that everything else about how you will live, what you will control (property ownership) will be determined by others. We are all political slaves. The state owns us.