[Future Snake Eater]

Do you have any idea what the post-Vietnam Army was like? I’ve heard many horror stories from the old-timers.

A volunteer military is unquestionably superior. Only a fool would want to go backwards.

[metesky]

From what I've read the post-Vietnam army was pretty bad because the officer corp bought into the reigning anti-military mindset of the times. A friend who was SF at the time confirmed it.

I could be wrong (as has so often happened in the past), but I always thought that with the Militia Act still in force that a draft was merely the calling-up of the unorganized militia.