National Service

[Highlander]

As an ex-Military man, there has been one question in my mind that has been puzzling me for a while,.. why when America was building up its forces and doing strange things with its supplies, was one of its main allies the UK scaling down its armed forces to what many of us think are dangerous levels,... while the world wide threats appear to be getting greater.

In digging into the question, I may have found the answer, it could be that the UK is planning to have a far bigger army than before

On the 24th of June this year, a Private members bill was put before the house entitled the `National Service Bill 2013-2014`,... it cleared that first hurdle without a debate,.. [ as I understand do most private bills ]

The second reading is planned surprisingly soon on the 6th of September,... less than two weeks from now,... where it will probably be debated and we may hear about it on the news,... there are then quiet a few more hurdles to go through before it become law,... but the fact that it has been put forward in the first place has got to be of interest to us

Only twice before has National Service come about, once in 1916 for WW1 when men from the age of 18-41 were called up, and in 1939 when men of 20-22 were called up.

If this does come about,..and to me it is the only explanation as to why we are scaling back our forces so much,..and lets say men [ and maybe women] of say 18- 25 years old were called up to serve say 2 or 3 years in the army, how would that effect your prepping

Do you have young people approaching that age?, is there people in your group of that age?, how would it effect your Bugging out?,... what if your son or daughter was ordered to round up people and confiscate people food?

I guess that it would effect all British people so what of the `British Muslims, Seiks or Hindus, would they go, or would they refuse on mass, and how would the UK deal with that???????

I am not going to put a link up here for fear of it turning into a news thread, its easy to find now you know what to look for