FDR Enacts Peacetime Draft

The transcript describes the enlistment of thousands of patriotic youths eager to fight the Kaiser during WWI. Medical examinations were conducted on an assembly line basis, and recruits were quickly transformed into soldiers. In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the first peacetime conscription bill in U.S. history, reviving the machinery of enlistment that had been unused for years.

What does the phrase 'fit the transformation to fighting recruit' imply about the draftees?

How did the machinery related to conscription change over time according to the text?