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Originally posted by DeltAlum
If we go back to the draft, will the armed forces return to the state they were in before the "all volunteer" Army -- where it is made up of mainly minority youth with little or no education? The "average" Army infantry grunt in Vietnam was a nineteen year old minority member with a high school education or less. Given the reinstatement of the draft, it is likely the education level and efficiency of our Army would be, possibility dramatically, decreased.
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This is not something I'm worried about, for these reasons...
The SSS reformed the draft laws sometime after the Vietnam War...with the college deferment shortened to ONLY one year (college seniors can complete their education). This actually worried some of my friends' boyfriends post 9/11, when they realized their socioeconomic situation wasn't going to save them from war the way it saved their fathers.
The idea of a draft sucks and I don't think it would happen, but if it did, the education level and efficiency would not decrease dramatically. The vast majority of NCOs have only received a high school education--not too far from the Vietnam-era status quo. If anything, you'd have more men who had attended college at some point in a drafted army than in a volunteer army of NCOs.