Would a hybrid draft System work?

I have answered the “what about a draft “ question here more than a few times
Always to the no or the negative, don’t want it, didn’t work great when we had it. Type of response

But how about just a partial draft?

Continue doing what we doing now for recruitment, good pay and benefits bonuses many choices.

End of each service just like now, services set an accession number.... for easy math let’s say the army needs 10,000 recruits fiscal year 2021

At the end of fiscal year 2021 only 8200 citizens have volunteered
Military age citizens would make up the deficit of 1800 recruits

1800 people from the drop list lottery are selected no bonuses no choice of duties conscript service for let’s say two years

At the completion of two years honorable service those drafted and now released are eligible for full VA benefits just like an soldier volunteer.

So there is some incentive to be professional moral ethical productive during your Conscript service during and after.

Pay grade is capped at E4 during conscript service..

MOS is assigned based on needs of the army (service)

Guidance to the MSC‘s is to use them in MOS if they show confidence and willingness, competence and good work ethic or freely assign transcripts for those duties and tasks every unit gets stuck with outside the mission statement or Mission essential task list
Borrowed military man power, 180 or 365 day tasking‘s two National Training Center etc.

Every non-mission critical task company battalion and brigade level units have to put soldiers into
Staff Duty CQ, KP, duty driver, garrison task or jobs. rail head teams, wash rack even in a diploid status somebody has to check ID cards at the DFAC, the headquarters somebody has to answer a phone or a radio and all the other non-MOS specific duties job as actions or task that every unit has to put qualified MOS people into just to get through the day.

And that way there’s some personal control in their destiny. if they choose to stand up and do the best they can they may be allowed to serve in a MOS trained slot, possibly even displacing a volunteer SM Who then gets to go for fill those unglamorous, Unfun tasking‘s.


In response to the very issues I’ve brought up previously in other threads

What about a conscript having a bad attitude? unwilling to work? being a problem child?

That’s addressed with the carrot or the stick.

The carrot is good pay Unless taken away during UCMJ) benefits (unless other then an honorable discharge is warranted) some freedom while serving(do your job well, get to do your job, Be a dud get to clean the wash wrack 6 days a week) full benefits at the end (unless other then an honorable discharge is warranted)

The stick is a streamlined UCMJ process, maybe bring back local corrections facilities at the unit level shitty taskings EVERY day for 2 years.

Even my children growing up learned very quickly that when they were being punished for having Done something wrong
Learned it was much better to do a reasonably good job at whatever task they were given rather than face the consequences of blowing off whatever task were given, ignoring a restriction or doing a half assed job at them.

Certainly a military age service member conscript can figure out the same as a 12-year-old