I once cheered abolition of two things that I now kinda miss::
@ReaderJohn All volunteer also includes mercenaries, which is another can of worms. One would hope a draft would cause citizens to be more critical about the military actions we take abroad and put pressure on politicians, but I am not sure how successful that was with Vietnam.
@frankm You said the part about the draft that I couldn't fit into 300 characters.
Well, make that the part I wanted to say but couldn't fit. There's probably a good-size bookworth of other things one could say about the draft and its replacement.