Military Community and Family Policy The chairman noted July 1 will be the 40th anniversary of the all-volunteer force. The last service members to be drafted into the armed forces reported for duty in June 1973. From that point forward, young men and women volunteered to serve their country, Dempsey said. “‘We the country’ have to make a commitment to those who serve, equal to this commitment that those who serve make to the country.” Dempsey urged all Americans to remember that it is volunteers who now protect the nation and its freedom. “Anything we can do for them through this public-private partnership is … worthy of the effort and worthy of their sacrifices,” he said.
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