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Originally Posted by Jamo
Seems to me we've lowered the standards a bit due to the all-volunteer nature of our forces...
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The all-volunteer nature is not the problem, any more than drafting unwilling and possibly phuked-up people was the problem in the 60s.
Just *possibly* lowering all the standards and waiving obvious faults to meet the drastic warm-body requirements is the problem.
(By the way, some 8 million served in the Vietnam era. Only two million of those were drafted. So don't knock the volunteer method too hard.)