Not Your Father's Military: The Navy that Lt. Cmdr. Leah Anne Bersamin's father served in is a far cry from the military she now knows. For most of her dad's military career, the draft was intact, and many of the 9 million Americans who served during the Vietnam War were young, male and poorly educated. Today, as the assault on Afghanistan's Taliban forces intensifies, the face of the U.S. military casts a very different reflection from what it was almost 30 years ago when it became an all-volunteer army.