Military Draft Essay

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The United States should not reinstate the draft in order to save money, to lower stress, and to allow for a more effective military. In order to maintain a stable army the government needs to have the mental and physical ability to tolerate the stress and physical conditions. Paying volunteer soldiers proves less expensive than compensating millions of unwilling servicemen. When drafting people they will expect more of a return for serving their personal time. Forcing these training cadres to put up with the recruits makes their stress levels raise. These ranks already have to worry about 2,600,000 enlisted people, not including active duty soldiers. Coming from an enlisted soldier in the army, why would a volunteer soldier want to fight along
Why put people together who do not want to be there? If you have a group project that consist of five unwilling people and another five who volunteer to do it, which is going to do a better job on the project? The people who want to do it. Forced People cannot perform a task to the highest level that is achievable. If the government reinstates the draft, and there are 200 soldiers and half of them are not willing can rebel against the others; more of a conflict starts. A better army consists of more willing and capable volunteers. They all share the same army values because they all share the same ideas, Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage, everything a soldier should live by. (Duty, serve and protect the United States of America by all means). Selfless Service, put a person on the line for the protection of others. Most important; unwilling soldiers would not want to do something would want to put them in that situation. As well if they only deploy recruits they need to score a certain grade on the ASVAB, Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. A test to see exactly what type of job people qualify for, or their MOS, Military Occupation Specialty, better score gets a better job. “Additionally, Brighter Soldiers could handle the technical materials in the advanced individual training courses, which enabled the Army to upgrade its entry-level training” (Oi

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