Originally Posted by
uxb99
Conscription or National Service?
I had the last National Service airmen as Met Observers ........ most had deferred joining a little, all highly educated, brilliant at their jobs. The downside is that everyone had a Gozomey chart, or a row of 5 bar gate scratches, or a Chuff Factor [days to serve divided by days served].
Necessary until the early 1960s, but I just cannot envisage ever again, neither conscription nor National Service. Mass disobedience and an ungovernable country would ensue.