National service Quote by Bob Scales

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such…

— Mark Satin

I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I…

— Montel Williams

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at…

— Colin Powell

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were…

— Tom Morello

Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.

— Jacob Weisberg

There is a residual sense for me, having grown up in the early '70s, that I did not know I had, which was a…

— Stephen Colbert

The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions…

— J. D. Vance

“The Vietnam War was definitive in the lives of those who served. But those who made it home, never fully returned. My story was…

— Joseph M. Puglia

I'm not a believer in bringing back the draft. But I am a huge proponent of national service.

— Seth Moulton

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

— Neil Young