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To: PeteB570

The last draft ran continuously from 1940 through 1973 (except 1948), and WWII was almost all draftee in the army, and a large portion of the navy and marines.

This military is going down hill quickly because of the need to fill the ranks with females and moms and grandmothers, it is also growing too expensive.

I was in the Army before you, I would much prefer serving with a few draftees than what I started seeing in the 1980s, me and other older vets saw things that blew our minds.

We need more manpower, we have zero bench depth, these small military actions since 9/11 have pushed our tiny military to the limits and exhausted it, a major war will grind us down within weeks or months.


65 posted on 01/15/2013 4:16:37 PM PST by ansel12 (Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
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To: ansel12

You keep mixing apples and oranges and trying to call it peaches.

The military of today is driven by PC civilians - which is why all the single moms you’re complaining about. Which is why the Infantry is about to be opened up to females.

Those issues have nothing to do with the draft and will not change if there is a draft.

The only thing that will change is there will now be folks in the Military who don’t want to be there.


67 posted on 01/15/2013 4:42:31 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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