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If there was a war and you were drafted, would you cry bone spurs or have a family friend or doctor get you out of it - or would you just go?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/how-can-the-us-military-solve-its-recruiting-crisis-195138664.html
How can the U. S. military solve its recruiting crisis?

In an effort to address recruitment shortages for most U. S. military services, Congress is considering a pair of proposals to expand the military draft. One provision would automatically register young men for Selective Service, rather than asking them to do it themselves. The other would also make women eligible for the draft.

The odds of either of these changes becoming law, particularly adding women to the draft, appear slim. But the fact that they’re on the table at all speaks to the deep concerns in Washington about the military’s ongoing recruitment struggles, which has led some experts to question the sustainability of the U. S. armed forces.

No one has been forced to join the military in the United States since the draft ended more than 50 years ago, and each branch’s ability to fill out its ranks has depended on convincing enough people to enlist. That’s always been difficult, but in recent years it's escalated into what the high-ranking officials have portrayed as a “crisis.”


“The all-volunteer force faces one of its greatest challenges since inception,” Ashish S. Vazirani, acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, told the House of Representatives late last year.

In 2023, shortfalls in the Army, Navy and Air Force left the military 41,000 new enlistees short of its recruiting goals. The two smallest branches, the Marines and Space Force, met their recruiting targets. The Army reportedly finished the 2023 fiscal year with 452,000 active-duty soldiers. That’s the smallest the force has been since before World War II and nearly 20,000 members short of the target the branch hopes to hit by the end of the decade.

If there was a war and you were drafted, would you cry bone spurs or have a family friend or doctor get you out of it - or would you just go?
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