Boobs and the draft
Where did it say anything about a draft? Encouraging enlistment isn't the same as drafting kids.
And the current "encouragements" are nothing to sneeze at:
As the ultimate inducement to Americans who voluntarily join up, the Pentagon offers the perk to end all perks: free cosmetic surgery. "Anyone wearing a uniform is eligible -- we do everything, except extreme makeovers," The New Yorker recently quotes Dr. Bob Lyons, chief of plastic surgery at Brooke Army Medical Centre in San Antonio, Tex. That includes facelifts, nose jobs, breast enlargements (in the first three months of 2004, army surgeons performed 60 such operations) and liposuctions. A typical example was former naval Lt.-Cmdr. Janis Garcia, who grew up hating her looks. "I wouldn't even smile in my wedding picture," she confessed before she had her chin realigned, jaw reconstructed, a nose job and her teeth straightened, all for nothing. Similar treatments on civvy street would have cost more than US$100,000.
Maclean's magazine
"Be all that you can be!" indeed.
