That is an improvement. And they were usually draftees.
Didn't want to be in the military in the first place.
Except for the pilots. For them it was punching the ticket to general. "It's not much of a war, but it's the only war we've got" was the prevailing attitude.
And, we've learned to respect the poor bastards who are being ordered around by an incompetent CinC. Finally.
Arf