>   I can see both sides.

I see only 1.

 >   With a draft you often get people who have to fulfill some agreement for a
 > set period of time.  (They have the option of the branch they wish to serve 
 > they enlist within a set time before they are drafted into one branch).  Thu
 > you have people who don't want to be  there, who will take the first chance
 > they have to get out, however that may be.  Who do a slip-shod job in hopes 
 > being "fired".

I do not need nor want to deal with your social misfits or people who do not
want to be there.  It wastes *trmendous* amounts of my time and for almost
zero positive result.

 >   With a professional military you have people who want to be there and to
 > excel in their profession, (just as civilians want to do their best in their
 > chosen profession).
 >   Other than some national emergency I believe the professional military is 
 > best way to go.

Correct.
         xxcarol
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