David Pakman

that raises the maximum enlistment age for the army to 42.

Now, we talked about this on the bonus show.

The enlistment age in some branches, some other branches had already been raised.

And so the real news here is army enlistment age has increased to 42.

Now, that's where a lot of people on the Internet have jumped in and they've speculated.

This is about the Iran war.

The whole idea is raise the enlistment age to 42 so that then when the draft hits, it's not about allowing volunteers up to 42 years old.

It's about being able to draft people up to 42 years old.

Now, you might be saying, why would you?

We're all speculating here.

Why would you need if you're planning a draft?

Why would you need to raise the enlistment age to 42?

Wouldn't you be able to just draft people that are younger in theory?

Yes.

But this is so sad.

If you consider the number of young Americans who have gotten through college barely being able to read or write.

And you consider the number of young Americans that are obese or or at least wouldn't be able to meet the physical requirements for being drafted.

The speculation is because so many young Americans simply wouldn't be able to make it.

If if drafted, you've got to raise that age so that you can get non obese people who can read and write.

OK, that's that's all the speculation.