Military draft may return
April 18th, 2007 by CD
This article did not surprise me. Military enrollment is down, so how else are you going to keep troops in the Middle East as 2 years become 4 and 4 years becomes 8?
The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony Tuesday that increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps may not resolve severe and growing personnel problems. There was even talk of returning to the draft to fill the ranks….
“If the United States is going to have a significant component of its ground forces in Iraq over the next five, 10, 15 or 30 years, then the responsible course is for the president and those supporting this open-ended and escalated presence in Iraq to call for reinstating the draft…”
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