senojekips
Active member
There was an article in the local paper where those who were drafted in Viet Nam said getting rid of National Service was one of the biggest mistakes the federal government had made, claiming it made boys into men.
In many cases I feel that this was true, and is evidenced by the fact that most blokes who were called up are quite happy about it in retrospect.
Unfortunately our Government is struggling to be able to budget enough money to support the small Armed forces that we maintain at the moment, I can't see that they would ever find the extra money to re introduce National Service. Also I think that with the present state of mind of the general population it would be political suicide for which ever side introduced it.