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End of Vietnam draft January 27, 1973 - Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces the draft is ended in favor of voluntary enlistment. Nixon changed the draft to a lottery in '71. + 108 others found this useful.
When mandatory military service ended in 1973, the volunteer military was born. By the early 1980s, the term poverty draft had gained currency to connote the belief that the enlisted ranks of the military were made up of young people with limited economic opportunities.