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Originally posted by Turbo_pro
First: Seahawk. thanks for your service. Second: great response.
Gender and race are not a choice and therefore should not be excluded on that basis.
You have no constitutional right to join the military.
Service is a choice.
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Actually, there is. By American common law, every able bodied man is considered in the militia from which the active duty military is drawn. All methods used to deny service based on other than the "able bodied" standard are illegal under common law since that's a denial of a right to self defense which includes defense of family, neighbors, and land in addition to self.
The expectation has always been that there would be no standing army, hence no need for most folks to ever do more than learn how to fire a rifle.