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President Reagan plans to end draft registration by allowing the authority for the program to expire in December. Newsweek magazine reported this week.
Reagan last week reiterated his support of the all-volunteer military, but he did not discuss the future of registration. Throughout his presidential campaign. Reagan promised to end the sign-up program and has called it "unnecessary" and "not helpful at all, national securitywise," since taking office. He has not, however, announced publicly when he plans to eliminate registration.
Despite Reagan's opposition to a peacetime draft. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 said recently that the administration may have to ask for mandatory induction to fulfill its goals in expanding American military capability.
In his commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Reagan proposed increases in pay and benefits as a means to attract more recruits and retain skilled volunteers.
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