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To: ansel12
Many of the men who fought in Viet Nam, or who served in the military elsewhere during the 1960s and early 1970s, were drafted.

Many of the men who fought WWII volunteered.

Now ... EVERY Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine who joined in the 1980s up to the present day, is a 100% volunteer, several times over.

41 posted on 07/02/2014 9:55:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

The actual situation is that the Vietnam era Army was 75% volunteers, while the Army that fought in WWII was 93% draftees, and all branches of the military drafted in WWII, including the Navy, during Vietnam only the Marines and Army drafted.

About 70% of the war dead in WWII were draftees, about 70% of the Vietnam war dead were volunteers.

Today’s tiny military has had to desperately seek females and pay out billions, to make up for the dismal enlistment enthusiasm, at one point during our current wars, the U.S. Army was accepting 42 year old women.


46 posted on 07/02/2014 10:12:31 AM PDT by ansel12 (( Rand Paul---What a tragedy if America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.)
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