Live blogging American Sniper

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1. Among your mistakes, like not knowing why one doesn't place a gun in the dirt, is thinking that

the Vietnam war was fought by draftees, WWII was fought by draftees.

In 1970 the American Army was 22% draftee, in WWII, the American Army was 93% draftees and the entire military was about 66% draftees, and about 70% of our WWII dead were draftees. Even our WWII Navy was 36% draftees.

From VFW Magazine:
During WWI, 72% of servicemen were drafted—50% of the men in France’s trenches were conscripted.

In WWII, 66% of all U.S. forces were drafted. Of the 10.5 million Army personnel, a whopping 93% were draftees. A poll taken in 1941 showed that just more than half of Americans would be willingly drafted for overseas service.

From 1946 to 1973, 5,077,185 men were drafted. During the Korean War era, 30% of total troops were drafted. In December 1950, 82% of the Army in Korea was made up of regulars. Exactly two years later, the ratio was 37% regular to 63% draftee in the war zone.

During the Vietnam era, 1,728,344 men were drafted. Of the forces who actually served in Vietnam, 648,500 (25%) were draftees. Draftees (17,725) accounted for 30.4% of combat deaths in Vietnam.”