1) Read a little history. Ignorance and then requesting "proof" just shows how stupid people are choosing to be in their pursuit of defending the bullshit their parties throw at them. But there are a few facts.
In 1941 available military training facitilites could handle approximately 16,000 new recruits per 8-week training period, less than 100,000 new recruits per year. On December 8, 1941 more than 150,000 men showed up nation wide to volunteer for military service. That's 1.5 years worth of recruits using available facilities. Even moving at emergency speeds, new training facilities were 6 months to a year away from being able to take on additional load. Now YOU think about it. You have 150,000 recruits IN ONE DAY, and more coming in the following days. How do you determine who gets trained first? By lottery - ie: selective service.
2) Where in the FUCK did you pull THAT lie out of? Your anus must be HUGE!
Reagan had built up the military to unprecedented peacetime heights. His focus was to increase the full time military by 20% and the ready reserves by 60% over a 20 year period. You ignorant pissant libtards scream bloody fucking murder about it for 8 fucking years,
Bush 41 significantly decreased the buildup as denoted by Reagan's 20 year plan, but still continued some build up while shifting focus to additional training for ready reserves. By the end of the combined 12 years under Reagan and Bush 41 the full time military had seen a 15% total increase in personnel and 12% increase in ready equipment. The ready reserves had seen a 45% increase in personnel and an incredible 35% increase in ready equipment.
Clinton's first 2 years in office changed all of that. First thing they did was cut training funds for ready reserves. Then they passed legislation reducing the size of both full time and ready reserve components. I was still serving at the time. I know what happened from inside. I saw people I worked with double slotted (ie: they were put in the same job as another soldier) because their old slot was eliminated. That means when promotion time comes, only one of them will be promoted as a slot above them opens up. It also means they wait twice as long because chances were the slot above them is also double slotted, taking twice as long to open up. The result was a HUGE number of trained soldiers choosing to ETS rather than sit around with their careers essentially put on hold.
There were brigades that were decreased to regiments. There were regiments completely taken off the books. The reasdy reserves were even worse. A specific instance, the 163d Armored Brigade of Montana National Guard (which included units in the Wyoming National Guard) was eleminated. In it's place they kept 2 out of 4 maneuver battalions and an air supprt wing. Eliminated were an artillery bn, transport bn, HHQ company, air attack bn, and several other support units. It resulted in a 65% reduction in personnel slots for the Montana and Wyoming Army National Guards.
Your little piece of "history" is an outright, bone faced lie.
3) A volunteer force WOULD be enough. The force as built up under REagan was all volunteer, and had enough more people at the time to handle the current crisis. And lets not mention the fact that it is hard to recruit people when others are running around vandalizing recruiting offices, interfering with the recruiting process, etc. Building up additional forces in a time of crisis is always difficult. That is why I detest the way the democratic party ALWAYS wants to cut military spending in time of peace (and in some politician's case - who thankfully lost - in time of war.)
