National Service Programs and Their Effects on Military Manpower and Civilian Youth Problems. Budget Issue Paper for Fiscal Year 1979.

Abstract : To deal with the complex of interacting youth problems confronting the nation, a wide variety of national service programs have been proposed. National Service has meant different things at different times. In the early 1960s, national service programs were implemented as a way to fulfill the desires of youth for voluntary service and to meet foreign and domestic social needs. As the war in Southeast Asia increased the need for military manpower during the mid-1960s, universal National Service was proposed as a method of military recruitment that would avoid the inequities of the draft. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, National Service was considered as an alternative to extending the draft or implementing the All-Volunteer Force. More recently, National Service has been put forward as a means of dealing with the continuing, severe problem of youth unemployment.