Comments on: Bring Back The Draft?

If America Fights A War, Should The Government Draft Soldiers?

[opfor311]

Andy,

While I appeciate your service, and can relate to it, as my father also served in the 8th Air Force in WWII, I believe that you misunderstand condition of our current forces.

While there are more service members without high school diplomas and more with 'moral waivers' than there were in the Gulf War, it is still true that the percentage of those service members are lower than those in the general popluation.

The military would much rather stay an all-volenteer force, than to go back to the days of a drafted army. The volenteers are more professional, and moral is higher.

Besides, with the base closures and the reductions in the force in the 'Peace Dividend' years, it would take years to rebuild the infrastructure needed to support a draft.

[lshanks2]

My brother joined the US Army when he was 17. He served in Vietnam, Germany & Ft Hood, TX. He never finished high school but he came back from Vietnam with a purple heart. He died in a motorcycle accident two months before he turned 21. He is not a loser in my heart. For Andy Rooney to call these soldiers who served losers is a slap in their families faces.