General Discussion

The people who are in the military are there because they wish to be, draftees do not and often don't have the desire which results in much more problems. As for,

"The marriages I see most strained are the senior NCOs and officers who have four or five tours... you're apart so much that it's hard to have a marriage if you're not together at least a critical mass of time, and that's tough,"

A draft wouldn't do anything about this....draftees wouldn't/couldn't take the place of "senior NCOs and officers" because senior NCO's are on at least their 2nd enlistment. Further, nobody has been deployed four or five times without re-enlisting...IOW, they chose to go four or five times.

Lastly, "I think if a nation goes to war, every town, every city needs to be at risk. You make that decision and everybody has skin in the game.". Please if the author would tell us all which towns or cities didn't "have skin in the game" in the absence of the draft....answer..none. Without the draft people from every city have lost people.