Stuff Essay, Research Paper

Draft Report

College Prep. Eng.

4-19-99

Drafting

A draft or, conscription, is a system of copulsory enrollment of men

and women into the armed forces. Conscripts are not the some as volanteers,

proffesionals, or mercenaries who affer their services to their government for

pay. They are drafted by the government and required to serve in the armed

forces.

the earliest form of drafting recorded was done by the ancient Greeks

around the 1st century B.C. In Greece men were taken from a very young

age and trained for several years in the citezen malitia. However, the draft has

been greatly modified scince then. In the United States all able-bodied

men,usually between the ages of 16 and 60, were compelled to register on the

lists of those available for service.

This report is relevant nowbecause America is debating reinstituting

the draft. If this were to happen, all men and women over the age of 18

would be elidgible for being drafted into the U.S. armed forces. Currently

this is a very disputted subject because some people beleive that bieng

drafted contradicts their freedom.