To keep the numbers up, so when the time comes to deploy..they can deploy.
During the Viet war..."draft" meant forcing men into the military. Draft=Conscription. Conscription CAN also occur during peacetime.
I'm not an American, but my understanding was the US can NOT have a peacetime draft due to something in the Constitution. Knowledgable Americans,please augment this.
Any important document historically has a rough draft; and sometimes, several. Abolishing the draft during the Vietnam War era is an important part of my family history.
The draft started...."The Government instituted the Nations first peacetime draft in September of 1940 and began to prepare troops for combat." got this from the web. -----------Actually, if we are referring to the United States, the first actual Draft was used by the North in the Civil War. It was highly unpopular, as it was very unfairly conducted.
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During the Viet war..."draft" meant forcing men into the military. Draft=Conscription. Conscription CAN also occur during peacetime.
I'm not an American, but my understanding was the US can NOT have a peacetime draft due to something in the Constitution. Knowledgable Americans,please augment this.
As soon as they received their draft notice in the mail.
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The draft was ended at the end of th eVietnam war, because the peacetime army got the manpower it needed from volunteer enlistment.
There is one more that i know of and it's called the Miracle years.
Yes, until the end of the Viet War, then it went away.
Juliet Reeve has written: 'Sourcebook on peacetime conscription' -- subject(s): Draft
Despite being officially neutral, after 1940 the US begain to increase its spending on defense and passed the first peacetime military draft
The draft in the US for World War II began in September 1940 with the Selective Training and Service Act. The first peacetime draft in American history, it was later expanded after the US entered the war in 1941.
The most important gat of a draft horse is a trot