Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that was complimentary to "weekend warriors." We are often scoffed at and maligned as being inept misfits, incapable of performing our tasks. If more men and women would join our thin ranks and we were provided with more modern equipment, no one would have to be concerned about a draft...
Bring back the draft...
...Soviet Union to an arms race. Where Carter has exercised restraint in dealing with the Soviet combat troops in Cuba and invasion of Afghanistan, Reagan threatened to blockade Cuba and to teach the Soviets a lesson after Afghanistan. Where Carter, caught in the throes of the new militarism, reinstituted draft registration, Reagan's record suggests he might use the new recruits to fight for some new "noble cause." Where Carter has learned from four years of mixed success in foreign affairs, Reagan might misplace his three-by-five cards and stumble into the O.K. Corral with guns blazing...
Ellsworth said that increased military spending would not necessitate a draft. Rather, the U.S. must invest more money in equipping the military and in training the personnel he said...
...Persian Gulf, where Carter stated without a gulp America's willingness to trade lives for oil, the Carter foreign policy has been disaster, brightened only by the Camp David summit. Young men born in 1960 and 1961 know this most clearly; called upon to register for the draft as a show of support for Carter's immoral adventurism, hundreds of thousands refused, and many others gave their names only for fear of the penalties...