NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense No. 029-03 (703)697-5131(media) IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2003 (703)428-0711(public/industry) SECRETARY OF DEFENSE STATEMENT ON THE DRAFT During a recent press briefing at the Pentagon, a reporter asked my views on the old military draft system. Although not eloquently stated, I responded to the question in part as follows: "If you think back to when we had the draft, people were brought in, they were paid some fraction of what they could make in the civilian manpower market, because they were without choices. Big categories [of people] were exempted-people that were in...