The Pending Draft

I disagree that there will be a draft any time soon, only because it is an election year, and the notion is politically toxic.

Instilling a draft is about as likely to pass as abolishing social security.

eric aka the Tygrrrr Express

Thanks for commenting on my post. I wrote this back last Sept. and the reason I reposted it was because I got this E-Mail. Check it out.
Chief of staff says Army must be re-balancedBy Greg Grant ggrant@govexec.com January 16, 2008
The Army is facing a personnel crisis as experienced soldiers retire and new recruits become more difficult to find, putting the future of the country's all-volunteer force at risk, the service's top general said Wednesday.
"By no stretch of the imagination is it a hollow Army or a broken one, but it is out of balance," said Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey. "We are so consumed by the current [wars] that we can't do the things we need to do to prepare for the future." The effects of seven years of continuous war is cumulative, he said, and it is wearing down the Army.