officers
in the United States Army,
and amongst those 307 general officers -
that's Brigadier and above -
they had 180 of their children in service.
And they spoke about this with a mixture
of both pride and anxiety -
pride that their children
had hearkened to the call to service,
pride that they were following
in the family tradition of service,
but also anxiety that they were -
these people were quite articulate about -
that they willy-nilly
found themselves complicitous

English: 
in the creation and sustenance
of an inter-generational military caste
that was largely reproduced from
within the ranks of military culture
and was not drawing people
from general civil society
to replenish its ranks.
Now, I thought that was
an interesting enough proposition
that I came back to campus,
and my research assistant and I 
tried to figure out
how many children of the 535 elected
members of the United States Congress
wereגייטס הדגישה מספר בעיות
שצפתה שהן עלולות להתעורר
עם הקמת צבא של מתנדבים בלבד.
הוועדה נפנפה את כולן.
היא ציינה אותן ואמרה,
"אין לנו מה לדאוג.
"אולי יהיו מבקרים
שיציגו התנגדויות אלה,
"אבל הודות לערנותה הנצחית
של החברה שלנו וכו' וכו',
"אין לנו סיבה לחשוש
משיקולים אלה."
אבל הנה הבעיות שהוועדה הדגישה.
אני מצטט.
הם אמרו, ראשית,
"צבא מתנדבים בלבד
"ייעשה מבודד מהחברה ויאיים
על השליטה מצד החברה האזרחית."
שנית, "צבא מתנדבים בלבד
יהיה מורכב כולו משחורים
"או בעיקר מחיילים מרקע מעוט-הכנסה."
שלישית,
"צבא מתנדבים בלבד

English: 
who was the Secretary of Defense
in the Eisenhower administration
and was commissioned
by Richard Nixon in the late '60s
to head the commission
that came in with the recommendation
to create the all-volunteer force, 
which we went to in 1973.
And in that report, the original
Gates Commission report, dated 1970,
the Gates Commission
highlighted several problems
that they anticipated
might possibly come into play
once the all-volunteer force was created.
They waived these all away.
They named