In 1973, the U.S. Selective Service System spent $98,029 — $638,312 in 2022 dollars — on the study of all-volunteer military forces in foreign countries. This may have made sense if the U.S. hadn’t just eliminated the draft.
Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, awarded the Selective Service System his Golden Fleece Award for this wasteful study.
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