Sara Duterte wants mandatory military service for all 18 years old, male and female

Wazzup Pilipinas!?

Sara Duterte "Gagamitin ko ang aking opisina—Office of the Vice President—para kausapin ang Congress and the Senate to make military service for all 18 years old, male and female, mandatory in our country. Nakikita natin ito sa ibang bansa, South Korea, Israel...

Hindi ROTC lang na isang subject, isang weekend. Dapat lahat kapag 18 years old, you will be given a subsidy, you will be asked to serve the country."

These countries have their own reason why they have military enlistment. And if her fuckery reason to be ok with this enlistment is for "discipline", hell no!

Military enlistment is a traumatic experience especially for those people who are physically and/or emotionally weak.

Does anyone remember why ROTC was taken out of the college requirements? Try to Google Mark Welson Chua of UST. That's when it all started.

Mark Chua’s murder in 2001 reverberated beyond UST. We joined the nationwide call to abolish mandatory ROTC, which, at that time, ran for two years. Mark exposed its corruption and it cost him his life.

Kaya tinanggal ang ROTC kasi breeding ng corruption. Also, nasa gitna pa tayo ng pakikibaka sa krisis-pandemya at hindi pa settled yung mga kaso ng hazing, sexual and physical abuse sa CAT at ROTC, bigla magsa-suggest ng ganito.

We all know stories about abuses in the military plus in ROTC and how some were traumatized because of their experiences so what’s the point of making military services mandatory when we all know that it can do more harm than good?

Digong Duterte wanted to reinstate it in 2019. Now Inday Sara wants to do the same if she becomes vice president. To this day my opinion about the ROTC remains the same. We do not need to militarize our youth to teach them patriotism and discipline.

Adding conscripts to the ranks can only make logistics worse. Supplies will easily bleed and putting the country at a battle of attrition without the war even starting. Having more soldiers is not a win. The AFP is even struggling on fixing the hazing problem.

and BTW Digong Duterte skipped/cheated his way out of ROTC.

Hooked lang sa KDrama yarn si Sara?