How long do you give the kids to get a job after leaving school?
I wouldn't do national service, fuck that. OK. I'm far too old now, but if some jerkwad told me I was going to have to get my hair cut and run round playing soldiers I'd bayonet the MoFo. There's no way I'm going to go kill some poor bastard in a 3rd world country on the say so of a politician I didn't vote for, for a cause I disagree with.
If all National Servicemen (sorry, ServicePeople) did was domestic assignments as non-combatants I don't see the point of National Service.
Maybe if the politicians hadn't messed around with the educational system, enforced the laws we already have, and put real Police officers on the streets, not those fake PCSOs, we wouldn't have a 'youth' problem.