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Here’s why. After the ugliness and shame of Vietnam, General Creighton Abrams took practical steps to change the Army force structure and fix one of the major causes of that political adventure. He saw what happened to our country when year after year, draftees were sent to kill people they didn’t know, get killed by people they didn’t know, all for abstract reasons they didn’t understand, ridiculously repeated ad nauseum by safely ensconced politicians and generals in Washington. Abrams wanted to make sure that "never again would a president be able to send the Army to war without the reserves maintained for such a contingency. The vehicle for doing this was a revised force structure that integrated reserve and active forces elements so closely as to make the reserves virtually inextricable from the whole."
