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Schlesinger says that the Pentagon "cannot guarantee the success of a volunteer Army" but will make every effort to make it work. As an inducement to volunteers, Congress has approved bonuses???$2,500 for a high school graduate enlisting for four years in a combat arm, $15,000 to a doctor who signs up?and has dramatically raised military pay. It now costs taxpayers $12,448 a year to maintain each person in uniform, compared with $3,443 in 1950. In all, the volunteer force has added $3.1 billion a year to the Pentagon budget. Manpower now accounts...
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