Status of the All-volunteer Armed Force: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, June 20, 1978United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 266 pages |
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Page 263 - All of the time; Most of the time; Some of the time; A little of the time; None of the time.
Page 204 - ... the Selective Service System, as it Is constituted on the date of the enactment of this subsection, shall, nevertheless, be maintained as an active standby organization, with (1) a complete registration and classification structure capable of immediate operation in the event of a national emergency...
Page 81 - COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE ALL VOLUNTEER FORCE The foregoing discussion highlights the need for a change in attitude on the part of the military services in their management of military personnel resources if an all volunteer force is to be achieved. The Committee explicitly rejects the notion, so prevalent in the military services today, that the problem is simply a financial one and that s|M-ndin2T ever increasing quantities of money is a way to insure success.
Page 40 - Army must not misdirect attention away from the participation — or, better, lack of it — of the larger white middle-class population. It is important to stress that the decline in educational levels of NFS male recruits is not correlated with the rising number of black servicemen. Since the end of the draft, the proportion of black high school graduates entering the Army has exceeded that of whites, and by quite a substantial margin.
Page 40 - The crux of the issue remains the prohibition of women in the combat arms and aboard warships. Leaving aside the considerable legal, normative, and organizational difficulties in the assignment of women to combat roles, a removal of the ban cannot be viewed as a solution to all-volunteer recruitment. Certainly enlisted women are not clamoring for a major expansion of their numbers into combat roles.
Page 145 - The fundamental argument for the volunteer Army is that it's just, it's fair. People are in the Army now because they want to be there. They're not in the Army because they're forced to be there. And in a society which is at peace, that's the way it ought to be.
Page 87 - To summarize, the AVF can be made to fail. But it can also be made to work — and perhaps much better than its draft-dependent predecessor. Whether or not its potential is realized will depend critically on the policies that the...
Page 41 - To ask what kind of society excuses its privileged from serving in the ranks of its military is not to argue that the makeup of the enlisted ranks be perfectly calibrated to the social composition of the larger society. But if participation of persons coming from less advantaged backgrounds in leadership positions Is properly used as a measure of democratic character, it is even more important that participation of more advantaged groups in the rank and file also be a measure of representative democracy.
Page 196 - This component, made up of trained manpower with a residual obligation is essential for three purposes: to bring the Active and Reserve Components to full authorized wartime strength, to replace combat losses until the draft mechanism and training base can accomplish same, and to organize new units, known to be required by the 24-division force but unaffordable in peacetime.
Page 44 - Attracting a representative, including college bound, cross section of American youth to serve in the military would help reinvigorate the ideal of military participation as a citizen's duty. In the final analysis, the market system is not the way to recruit an AllVolunteer Force, nor is it the way to strengthen a