Whilst I would not wish for a natural disaster requiring the help of the military or another extended fireman's strike, it would provide an opportunity for these lefties to see some advantage in having a military force.
One also wonders at the views expressed by some of them that '16 is too young'. Well, at that age they are probably several years into an active sex life, have got drunk many times and are probably experimenting with several drugs. A bit of good old fashioned military service would do all of them a power of good and might just rectify the years of indiscipline at the hands of these teachers.
Who knows, if they all did three years or so as they had to with National Service, we might end up with a better society to live in.