Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service

Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure but you can already do it.

  All this is is a requirement to do it.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not really, generally you need degrees to do this stuff. Would be good to be able to try out different jobs with experience

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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cameron set up a service where you can vollenteer to do just this. Its been around for years. And like any work experience training. You end up doing the unskilled stuff. Cos of course you will never gain any experience that requires qualification. At best you get to watch.

      And even before Cameron charities offered and offer these services and many more.

      This is literally just making a volentry thing mandatory. Nothing else at all.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A degree to get on the officer track. Conscription or not.

      Without one, you’re probably infantry. Conscription or not.

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    • EmrysOfTheValley@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can do some volunteering without out degrees like with St Johns Ambulance who will give you the training to be a driver, event first aider, etc. I know a guy who volunteered as an ambulance driver who was an engineer by trade. Just as an example.

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      • KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Would highly recommend volunteering with SJA, thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding

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• j4yt33@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Being cannon fodder for a government who doesn’t give a fuck about you? Yeah, sounds… great!

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is one’s duty to serve their King and Kingdom

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    • j4yt33@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You go and do that then

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