US military learned during WWII that conscription doesn't yield good troops.
Think about it in today's military. Draftees will do enough to stay out of the stockade. While it's a fictional movie, go watch The Dirty Dozen, which does a great job showing what motivates people in such a circumstance.
Now, draft someone, I don't know, to be an Air Traffic Controller...
The US has no need to be drafting soldiers right now.
I don't get it? Penguins are at home there or in the water?
(It is the Far Side, which I have enjoyed for decades now, but must admit I don't always get it).