Johnathon Greer
Pacific Time
JohnGreer@e-mail.phoenix.edu

Since the birth of our country the military has had a mainstay of volunteer and drafted troops. This reviews historical aspects of a draft in the United States to discover the differences between a volunteer versus a drafted military in the United States. Although Drafting has been said that it will not ever happen again and that the only way people will be involve will the military is if they Volunteer will that ever change if the United States ever need to take not much of a measure? We will see which one of these choices is better and see if it can change opinions about one another I believe that Volunteer is better just because it gives people a chance to choose it they want to be part of the military or not I don’t think it’s far to draft people that don’t want to fight. When the country drafts people a lot of people run to other countries so they don’t have to go to war because they know they won’t do well or worse. To begin our journey we need to explore when a drafted military first started. In the American colonial period when forces were needed, they would ask every able bodied male to form a militia, in their colony. These militias were organized to protect the colony if a threat presented. At the time America began the Revolutionary War the army was composed of enlisted volunteers. This type of military did not give General Washington, enough soldiers to battle the British army. Militias at the time were poorly trained, barely equipped, and in several cases their enlistments were finished in the most inopportune moments.
(Dtl. Military Report, 2008, Department of Defense-Archives) After George Washington was elected President, he sent legislation to Congress that required all men to register for training, service, and assignment to a unit of the militia.