Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CLAIMING THAT "America has been caught with its defenses down," Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) has asked Congress to reinstitute the military draft. Few give his bill much of a chance of reaching President Reagan's desk, but Hollings has succeeded in stirring the blood of some Capitol Hill hawks. Bolstered by the president's hesitance to eliminate the existing registration program, draft fans believe that the atmosphere in Washington will accommodate a renewal of compulsary service, if not this year, then perhaps next. As we have stated many times in the past, a military draft...
Regardless of what registration policy the White House decides is most politically advantageous, opponents of the draft--both members of the public and elected officials--must move immediately to block Hollings' measure...
Supporters of the draft, including Hollings, have also argued that requiring everyone to serve will correct the over representation of minorities and poor people in the military. Black enlistees now account for 30 per cent of the Army, most of them in the lowest positions. Only 6.1 per cent of the officer corps is Black...
...volunteer force is without serious flaws. It needs more non-commissioned careerists and mechanics, white or Black. Ideally, it would have more minority officers and fewer minority kitchen workers who have been forced into uniform because their lack of skills prevents them from finding a job elsewhere. A draft, however, would neither induce technicians to stay nor improve the lot of minorities in harsh economic conditions...
...fundamental agreement with the majority--the military draft is unnecessary, and more importantly counterproductive, a display of militarism that can only get our nation in trouble...