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"You need to lay off what you are using. The difference between a volunteer army and draft army is that in a volunteer army the people who entered chose to be there, while those that are drafted were not given that choose."

A volunteer in the army is an old joke. It means never volunteer for anything because it probably isn't what you thought it was. And it is generally bad.

As for the volunteer military, I've been working with them now since 1975, and a previous six in a separate enlistment. (I took a break in between) I now train this army you say volunteers, and I have found quite a few that are there for the money, the eduation and hospital bennies, and the opportunity to learn a trade that they will use on the outside when they do not re-up after 4 or 6. And this includes professionals like doctors and lawyers. It ain't always as it seems. The biggest reason women left the theater in the first trip to Iraq was pregnency, accomplished there. I know one moron that crashed his motorcycle to get put out and another that smoked dope in front of his commander to lose his security clearance and erase his worldwide capacity. People have volunteered for the business for different reasons, some for the right ones.

There were recruiters at the college night at my son's high school a couple weeks ago. One of them spoke to me when he overheard me telling my son to get information on financial aid. He came over and was telling me all the benefits my son would get if he joined the army -- college tuition, medical, etc. I jokingly said something about what about all these wars we're fighting. He sincerely told me that the army needs all kinds of people besides soldiers, and many people join the army to serve as doctors, accountants, file clerks, etc., and never even carry a gun. I don't know if what he said was true or not, but I do know that a large number of people join to get the benefits. Even Jessica Lynch joined to get an education, and didn't think she'd ever have to go to war.