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...Nunn. You need quality people and you will not obtain them with pay alone. You need something that motivates people who want to further their education. A big impediment here is that the civilian student loan programs are so generous now for the ordinary person regardless of whether or not they ever served in the military. It is hard for a military education incentive to compete...
...Nunn: Whatever you do with military education benefits will be affected by the generosity of the existing civilian educational programs...
...Nunn: I don't think that you can return to a two-or three-year compulsory obligation during peacetime. I don't think that you can sell a program that disrupts lives for two to three years...
...Nunn: But you could draft for the reserves and have people serve three to six months; maybe spread it over two years by training three months per year so not to interrupt lives too much in peacetime...
...Nunn: Absolutely not, unless the President comes out for it, unless there is a bipartisan coalition supporting it. I think that the form of draft used would be a lottery. The draft used at the beginning of the Viet Nam War was inequitable, but the lottery system that replaced it in later years was not that...