Originally Posted by shackone
You lost me there. What, then, would they do? Wait for a draft there never came?
By that, I simply meant that, for most, service is a great motivator in their decision to join the military, but it is not the only one. In order to get people to put their lives on the line, you must compensate them somehow, [I]especially[I]in an all volunteer military. For most of us, flying and a good-deal TDY once in a while are all the compensation we ever ask for. However, those things are becoming less common with every day that passes. Instead, hard workers are rewarded with more work while slackers get the good deals because no one wants to task them with anything because they know it'll be screwed up.