A different idea about military service:

[Guy Montag]

4. The most worthless military are the contractors that often replace the regular military

of our country. They are arrogant, unaccountable for the horrible things they do, and enthusiastically do the wrong things that predominantly spoil the relationship between their employers and the country subjected to their arrogant selves.

It's bad enough to suffer the damage young, ill trained troops who don't come into the military with much of an ethical foundation do when they screw up like they did at the Abu Ghraib torture scandal for example.

But just look at how the newly empowered Iraqi officials are harassing the long disposed contractors they still need to train their military.

They hate needing them, and would love to shoot many of them and dump their bodies in the ocean when they are done at their jobs.

It seems to me -- and yes I was in the military several years myself -- we would have the worst sort of military that in the end would cost us dearly were we to take your idea seriously and try to implement it.