Originally Posted by Excargodog

Perhaps so, but it isn’t just the IRR that has shortfalls. It’s the Active and Reserve of all the services except the Marine Corp. even the Coasties…

https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigho...h=26a759c8648c

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Some of it recent, some not. Some will still be medically qualified, some won’t. But putting people through basic is going to take at least ten weeks AFTER you get a draft law passed, deal with court challenges if females are not included in the draft (if we can even define who is a female or male and who identifies as something else) and all the admin and logistics actually get done to get them to the training centers which don’t currently have a lot of excess capacity either and - yeah, often aren’t in tremendous shape

https://www.military.com/daily-news/...s-lack-of.html

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105797.pdf

(nor, for that matter, are your would be draftees).

https://americanmilitarynews.com/202...n-study-finds/

But let’s assume we overcome those hurdles and get those people through basic training and in some modest form of physical and mental fitness.
That gets you a bare E-1 who can probably wear a uniform with only minor faux pas’s. Technical schools to actually use the highly advanced equipment an take anywhere from three weeks to 2 years. Of course, that would require the defense industrial base to spin up as well, something the Ukraine War is showing us is much easier said than done.