According to the department of defense in 2003, an all-volunteer force is and would have been more cost-efficient.

In 1973, the first year of the all-volunteer force, there were almost no women officers.

"Our all-volunteer force is the issue here," one Army officer said.

Women were needed for the new all-volunteer force in the early 1970's after the Vietnam war.

Is an all-volunteer force the most appropriate way to address national security?

The Army converted to an all-volunteer force with greater emphasis on training and technology.

We're an all-volunteer force now so you shouldn't have any reason to run away.

At the start of the war the army was small in comparison to its enemies', and remained an all-volunteer force until 1939.

And because of America's all-volunteer force, it is the nation's poor that disproportionately serve.

The army has been an all-volunteer force since 1967.