Statement by Secretary Hagel on the 40th Anniversary of the All-Volunteer Force

by Gary Kopycinski on July 1, 2013

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2013. Forty years ago today, the Department of Defense implemented one of the most consequential and far-reaching changes in the history of America’s armed forces with the establishment of the all-volunteer force.