The mandatory military service policy is a very touchy subject. John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man (“John F. Kennedy Quotations.”) More than 54% of Americans agree that able citizens should be required to serve in the military for two years (“Should Military Service be Mandatory.”) Mandatory military service should be enforced in the United States and other countries.
Mandatory military service would has many benefits to provide to the men and women of our country. Americans would become so much stronger physically. The rate of obese citizens in the United States has dramatically increased in the past twenty years. In 2010, all fifty states reported that over twenty percent of their population was obese. Jump ahead five years to present day, 35.7 percent of the states’ population are obese and approximately seventeen percent of adolescents ages two to five are also obese. If all citizens were required to serve in the military, these increasing rates would decrease rapidly because Americans would be physically fit (Tate.) …show more content…
Mandatory military service would provide useful skills to the American citizens. The training that Americans would be provided would go way beyond the technical skills needed. A survey was done on many military volunteers who have chosen a career in a public work environment stated that several abilities and related attitudes that benefit them well in their occupation. These skills include initiative, stress management, teamwork, global awareness, diversity, and responsibility. Further volunteers reported that they studied the manner of discipline and healthy living as well as abilities in self-defense (“10 Meaningful Pros and