Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enlisted men be raised, on July 1, to typical civilian levels for men of the same age and with comparable skills. Estimating the cost of this step at $2.7 billion, the commission predicted that the pay raise would attract enough new volunteers during the year to make ending the draft possible on July 1, 1971, when the present draft law expires...
Since the military presently includes almost 3.5 million men, it is hard to understand how the commission could predict an end to the draft by 1971. especially with pay increases calculated to maintain a force of only 2.5 million. Even earlier this year. when the commission's report was completed, significant reductions in the size of the military seemed unlikely in the near future...
...report provides no logical basis for anticipating an early end to the draft, it does offer some encouragement that the draft could be ended as soon as the war is over...
...draft has become a very important mechanism for providing the men needed for a military as large as the one we have now. But, the commission shows that the draft becomes much less important in a military of 2.5 million men. In the early sixties, when the military was only slighter larger than this, over 70 per cent of new enlistees each year were volunteers. Raising military pay-and depending a little more energy on recruiting-could probably be sufficient to maintain an army manned entirely by volunteers...
...fact, attract somewhat more well-to-individuals who have less trouble now getting job in the civilian market. The commission estimated that the percentage of blacks in an all-volunteer army, although greater than their percentage of the population, would scarcely exceed their membership in a military retaining the draft...