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.... Draftees are cannon fodder, that's all they would be good for, a blanket of bodies for the real soldiers to walk over.....

How sad that in the end you try to make your point by insulting and degrading the millions of draftees who served bravely and honorably and in many, many cases contributed far more than the volunteer lifers. I suspect that a review of the MOHs, SSs, BSs etc awarded to draftees stacks up quite honorably with those awarded to volunteers.

"I suspect that a review of the [awards for valor] to draftees stacks up quite honorably with those awarded to voluteers."

I was a RA volunteer, and I never saw any difference between the behavior in combat of draftees vs volunteers. It is the small unit cohesion, that bond between men sharing danger, which can be formed in training or in the field, which makes the difference, not how those men got into the unit.

You are trying to pervert what I said, that was WWII, and maybe Vietnam, they were trying to survive. but Draftees are NOT what I would want covering my back. I would want HIGHLY motivated, HIGHLY trained volunteers at my back.

A draft is wrong!! My STEPfather was a draftee, he was an OFFICER!! In the navy!! He was in charge of a deck gun on the DD944 USS Mullinix, he would sit in the gun and REFUSE to give orders. He was a conciencious objector, YUCH!! I am ashamed that I actually called him my father!!

He was a draftee, the only reason he joined is because he HAD to, and then when he did, he Whimped out. Personal experience has told me that DRAFTEES are not serious, they are not there by choice, but because they HAVE to be. Maybe there are some that have done thier darndest to do the best they can, but my stepfather was a traitor as far as I am concerned, but ONLY because he was drafted, if he had not been drafted, he would never have been there to endanger the men under him in the first place.

It was not my intention to put down those draftees that have served honorably, but to say that drafting men who do NOT wish to serve, IS WRONG!!! It endangers those of us whom wish to serve and LOVE our country..