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Monet,
Some comments to add to your thoughts.
While you're right about the college students, the Draft hit other groups harder. The average "grunt" draftee in Nam was a 19 year old minority with a high school diploma or less. They had basically no chance of getting in the Guard/Reserves.
It was documented at one time that the all voluntary Army was better educated, better trained and better equipped.
I think the problem is that right now, it isn't big enough and so the continued deployment and redelployment of Guard and Reserve formations, and recruitment is down, partially because of questions about the war itself and our prosecution of it.
I particularly agree with your final sentence, although present members are held in much higher esteem than were Vietnam Era vets -- which is wonderful. It wasn't much fun for veterans in the 60's and 70's.
I was in Army ROTC, and still almost was drafted when I missed a semester of college due to illness in my family.
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Last edited by DeltAlum; 11-20-2006 at 03:33 PM.
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