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Reviving the draft: with roughly half of our Army committed to the Iraq occupation, and additional geopolitical challenges looming on the horizon, the return of conscription is a very real possibility.(Military)
"Should the Draft Be Reinstated"? asked the headline of a December 21, 2003 Time magazine story. Many National Guardsmen and Army Reservists--men and women who believed they had signed limited contracts to serve as part-time soldiers--are discovering that, in a very real sense, the draft has already been quietly revived.
The December 29 Washington Post profiled two Guardsmen and a Reservist presently deployed to Iraq who had been slated for retirement last year. "On their Army paychecks, the expiration date of their military service is now listed sometime after 2030--the payroll computer's way of saying, 'Who knows?'" observed the Post. The same is true of ...
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