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Army Times, January 25, 1999, p. 44.

43. Mitchell, "Air Force Heads for Bumpy

Flight," p. A1; Rowan Scarborough, "Airline Pay

57. Quoted in "Lawmakers Debate Reviving the

Lures Military Pilots Bored by Peacekeeping,"

Draft."

Washington Times, October 4, 1998, p. A6; Bradley

Graham, "Strains on Many Fronts Drive Pilots

58. Quoted in Thomas Lippman, "Socially and

from the Skies, Airmen Say," Washington Post,

Politically, Nation Feels the Absence of a Draft,"

August 13, 1998, p. A29; Rowan Scarborough,

Washington Post, September 8, 1998, p. A13.

"Military Is Subpar, Lott Tells President,"

Washington Times, July 2, 1998, pp. A1, A11; and

59. Wilson, "Selective Draft Could Be Answer,"

Philip Shenon, "Top Guns Quitting for Life at

p. 31.

Cruising Altitude," New York Times, October 22,

1997, p. A14. Air Force personnel have also

60. "Time to Reconsider," p. 44.

made that argument directly. See, for example,

Tom Henwood, "Payback for Military Service,"

61. Cleaver, "Kleaver's Klippins."

Letter to the editor, Washington Post, March 20,

1999, p. A17.

62. See, for example, Pat Towell, "Is Military's

`Warrior' Culture in America's Best Interest?"

44. Rowan Scarborough, "Navy Secretary Seeks

Congressional Quarterly Weekly, January 2, 1999,

Way to Boost Morale," Washington Times, January

pp. 25­28; Ricks, "Widening Gap," pp. 66­78;

1, 1999, pp. A1, A9.

and Richard Kaplan, "Fort Leavenworth and the

Eclipse of Nationhood," Atlantic Monthly, Sep-

45. Pexton, p. A25.

tember 1996, pp. 74­90.

46. Quoted in Moniz, "Skilled Workers Bailing

63. Mackenzie, p. A21.

Out," p. A10.

64. Quoted in Lippman, p. A13.

47. Ibid.

65. Doug Bandow, "An Involuntary Military:

48. Chris Hedges, "Studying Bosnia's U.S.

Paying More for Less," in The Anthropo Factor in

`Prisoners of Peace,' " New York Times, March 30,

Warfare: Conscripts, Volunteers, and Reserves (Wash-

1997, p. 11.

ington: National Defense University, 1987),

pp. 245­86.

49. New enlistees are still less likely to be married

than their civilian counterparts. However, the per-

66. Quoted in Myers, "Good Times," p. A19. See

centage of married personnel in the military has

also Moniz, p. A10.

risen from 43 percent in 1974 to more than 50

percent today. Assistant Secretary of Defense,

67. Evan Gaddis,

Statement at Hearing on

Office of Force Management Policy, Population

Recruiting Issues,

Subcommittee on Military

Representation in the Military Services: Fiscal Year 1997

Personnel of the

House National Security

(Washington: U.S. Department of Defense,

Committee, 106th

Cong., 1st sess., March 18,

November 1998), p. v. The mean age of service-

1999, p. 3.

men has risen by more than two years since the

inauguration of the AVF. Idem, p. 3-2.

68. Richard Newman, "Dumbing Down the

Military," U.S. News & World Report, November 23,

50. Quoted in Ricks and Robbins, p. A1.

1998, p. 22.

51. Myers, "Good Times," p. A19.

69. Brian Mitchell, "Is the Draft in Your Future?"

Investor's Business Daily, February 19, 1999, p. A1.

52. Wilson, "Selective Draft Could Be Answer,"

p. 31.

70. U. S. Army, Office of Public Affairs, Press brief-

ing, March 4, 1997, p. 25.

53. Joseph Califano, "When There's No Draft,"

Washington Post, April 6, 1999, p. A23.

71. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Population

Representation in Fiscal Year 1997, p. D-14. Thomas

54. Jacob Weisberg, "Bombs and Blockbusters,"

Ricks, in some ways a critic of the AVF, observes,

New York Times Magazine, April 11, 1999, p. 18.

"The result of [the services'] selectivity is that the

military is now far better educated than the gen-

55. Thomas Ricks, "The Widening Gap between

eral population." Ricks, "The Widening Gap."

the Military and Society," Atlantic Monthly, July

1997, electronic version.

72. Gordon Sullivan, "Washington Tightwads Are

Creating a Hollow Military," Wall Street Journal,

56. "Time to Reconsider Compulsory Service,"

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