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My first post to reply to this, I can’t stand this kind of talk.

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I do not want to serve with anyone that has been drafted.
The all-volunteer force does work. These instances are rare.

/johnny

As a Draftee, I did not like serving with you lifer mofos either....wait, maybe you never had the pleasure of doing so for your country, much less doing it at your country’s request.

Draftees accounted for 30.4% (17,725) of combat deaths in Vietnam, over 1.5 million were conscripted during the Korean War, and of 292,131 Americans that died in WW-II...about 60 percent of those (175,000) were draftees. I believe the families of these fallen “conscripts” would take issue with your strange idea that draftees were inferior.

Can I set you up as guest speaker at our next regional 1st Cav Association meeting, as your special knowledge of the the quality of drafted troopers should make for a lively discussion in the bar or even out in the parking lot, later.

heh

If you ain’t Cav, well you know the rest.

The last draftee retired 2 years ago.

Army’s Last Draftee to Retire After 39 Years
Published July 03, 2011 Associated Press

Mellinger told the draft board there was a mistake.
“I ... told them I don’t need to go into the Army, I’ve got a job,” said Mellinger, who hung drywall for a living. “They just kind of laughed.”
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He heard so many war stories in training that he was fired up about going, and was disappointed he was instead assigned to be an office clerk in Germany.
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Mellinger wasn’t long for clerking. He earned a spot in the Army Rangers, and would go on to do more than 3,700 parachute jumps. And despite the 1991 parachute accident that gave him the material for the wind chime, breaking his leg in several places, he went on to run nine marathons. He was made a command sergeant major in 1992.
Nearly a decade later, he was sent to ground zero in New York right after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as part of an advance party from the First Army. Then came his time in Iraq as the top enlisted soldier of the multi-national forces in Iraq, where he says he survived 27 roadside bombings during his deployment of nearly three years straight.
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“Draftees are pretty maligned over time,” he said, “but the fact is they are part of every branch of service up to 1973, and when you look at what those military branches accomplished over time, I’ll let the record speak for itself.”