Why The All-Volunteer Force Struggles More Than Draftees

I hate that today's all volunteer military is having problems reintegrating back into society. I hope, after the elections are over, there will be more open employment for the vets. For the married vets, I don't know how they make it in or out of the military. The costs of living far exceeds the pay a married couple has in the military. I guess I'll just have to continue to keep them in my prayers.

There are signs that today’s vets have greater problems reintegrating into society that in previous eras. Perhaps most consequentially, today’s vets suffer from higher unemployment than not only their civilian peers, but also vets of previous generations.

In years past, troops were drafted–they didn’t even want to be in the military in the first place, but they snapped back into civilian life much more quickly than some of today’s vets, who all wanted to serve. Could that be part of the problem?