THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, Qctaber 16, 1970
THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, October 16, 1970
VIETNAM STATISTICS:
Draftees face higher
risk, than enlistees
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Two members of the Royal 22nd Regiment walk along a section
of Montreal's financial section yesterday after they were called
up by Premier Bourbassa to help protect the Quebec people and
public buildings. The callup was in response to recent kid-
napings of two public officials by the 'Quebec Liberation Front.
WASHINGTON (CPS)-Army
draftees have almost twice as
high a chance of being killed in.
Vietnam as non-draftee enlisted
men, according to a U.S. Army
study.
During 1969, draftees were
killed at the rate of 31 per
1,000 and injured at the rate of
203 per 1,000, while first term
enlistees were killed at the rate
of 17 per 1,000 and injured at
the rate of 120 per 1,000, ac-
cording to the study..
The reason draftees tend to
be killed at a much higher rate
is that the Army, in a procedure
different from previous wars,
allows men who enlist for three
years to choose what job they
want. Because of this, draftees
who make up 56 per cent of the
men entering the Army, tend
to make up a niuch higher per-
centage of combat units.
William K. Brehm, assistant
secretary of the Army for man-
power aid reserve affairs, ex-
plains that "the popular jobs are
the ones for which people enlist.
They don't enlist for the hard-
core combat skills."
"That is why draftees tend to
populate the hard-core combat
skills-70 per cent' of the in-
fantry, armor and artillery are
draftees," says Brehm.
A Defense Department man-
power expert, who refused to be
quoted by name, told a reporter
for National Journal, a news-
letter which requested-the Army
study, that "we've studied this
problem very carefully. People
don't deem to enlist in the
Army to fight."}
"We recognize the inequity
this causes in a shooting war,"
he says, "but we- don't know
what to do about it."
College graduates are slightly
less likely to be assigned tot
combat duty but there are no
figures separating draftees from
enlistees among college gradu-
ates. 36.2 per cent of the gradu-
ates who entered the Army in
1969 were assigned to combat
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jobs, compared with the overall
rate of 43.3 per cent. 61,per cent
of the graduates were draftees.
The higher death rate of draf-
tees in Vietnam may have been
ended by an amendment to the
military procurement bill, which
would have barred the sending
of draftees to Vietnam unless
they volunteered to go.
The amendment, authored by
Sen. William Proxmire (D-
Wis.), was rejected by a vote of
22-71.
The Army says it has no fig-
ures on the chances of a draftee
serving in Vietnam, but other
figures indicate that 8,000 draf-
tees are sent to Vietnam each
month. The monthly draft call
has been, running about 10,000.
30 per cent of. all draftees then
in the Army were serving in
Vietnam on July 1, compared
with 25 per cent of first term
enlistees.
Many persons, including Sen.
Proxmire, believe the three-year
enlistees should not be able to
opt out of combat while draftees
must fight. However, the Army
is apparently unwilling to re-
move the provision because en-
listments might drop, forcing a
drastic rise in draft calls.
"As strange as it sounds,"
Brehm. said, "only 800 young
men a month out of 200 million
Americans are enlisting for
combat. If we went to an all-
volunteer force in Vietnam, it's
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