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STUFF

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.