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Originally Posted by lazjen
I wish we had something military-like, but was more SES (state emergency service) based that could be used for a youth service. Make it for search and rescue, disaster assistance and perhaps other community services. Do the training (physical, skills, etc), do the team work, leadership, etc that's useful for youth to get the experience/exposure.
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I'd be in favour of this if it could be made to work. The only (fairly substantial) issue I see with it is what do you do with those who don't want to be there and will not do what they are told to? This is easily dealt with in the military, but in civilian life, even the police don't really enforce community service sentences. Something completely civilian would end up failing. We are just too self centred these days.