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To: Captain Walker; stockpirate

“”””The last war this country entered properly was WWII.””””

That was the war fought by our army that was 93% draftees.


98 posted on 06/14/2024 8:05:24 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
That was the war fought by our army that was 93% draftees.

I guess I now need to call you a liar, but I think you are just dumb.

PROFILE OF US SERVICEMEN (1941-1945)
38.8% (6,332,000) of U.S. servicemen and all servicewomen were volunteers
61.2% (11,535,000) were draftees

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-us-military-numbers

101 posted on 06/14/2024 8:30:56 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: ansel12
That was the war fought by our army that was 93% draftees.

And we could draft that kind of a number because the government went through the steps and followed the process; there was a declaration of war.

135 posted on 06/15/2024 3:19:52 AM PDT by Captain Walker ("It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones." - George Washington)
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