[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Selective Service? Why? (Page 1 of 8)
Posted: 1/31/2016 10:05:19 PM EDT
| I heard a radio ad to register for Selective Service. I didn't realize that was still around. Why is it? We've had an all-volunteer military for over a generation. Shouldn't the draft registration be abolished? It doesn't seem to have any reason to exist or purose. |
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Only problem with that is by not registering he can never hold a gov't job, get a student loan and you get a $250 k fine and or 5 years in fed prison if you get caught. Quoted:
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Don't hold your breath waiting for my son to register. Not gonna happen on my watch. As it should be |
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Selective service registration is a feel-good forced-patriotism program for the right. Nothing more. You cannot get a fed job if you did not register for the selective service (at least as a male), even if you were supposed to register 30 years ago. Our military does not have the logistics and training capacity to deal with increasing the size of the military faster than we could institute a new selective service registration from scratch. We could recreate the entire selective service system faster than the military could accept the draftees. |
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Quoted: Just in case ceasar needs soldiers to fight the Chinese, Russians and the Persians. Caesar's advisers need to remember that nuclear powers do not engage in direct conflict. For proxy-wars, we need to have public buy-in (the "war on terror") or Ceasar is going to have his ass handed to him in the next election (Southeast Asia). We have no need for a selective service (except perhaps as a reminder that Caesar is the emperor). |
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What country in the history of the world drafts teenage girls to fight its wars? Quoted:
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I just wish they would change the law and make it mandatory for women! Gender rights and equality, ya know! Indeed. What country in the history of the world drafts teenage girls to fight its wars? israel? |
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I think I still have my draft card Registered in the mid 60s. You know, I forget now when we had to register. Was it 16 or 18? 18. my birthday was in the summer of '67. I was working. went down to the PO and signed up during lunch. ate my sandwich on the walk back to work. |
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I just wish they would change the law and make it mandatory for women! Gender rights and equality, ya know! Indeed. What country in the history of the world drafts teenage girls to fight its wars? israel? Do some more research... |
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I just wish they would change the law and make it mandatory for women! Gender rights and equality, ya know! Indeed. What country in the history of the world drafts teenage girls to fight its wars? israel? I knew someone would say Israel as soon as I posted that' Israel faces a unique situation in that they're 7 million people surrounded by 200 million that want to eradicate them. Israel is an anomaly that is the exception to recorded history. |
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Only problem with that is by not registering he can never hold a gov't job, get a student loan and you get a $250 k fine and or 5 years in fed prison if you get caught. Not entirely true. 
<-----never registered for Selective Service and has a government job. (thanks to Gerald Ford there's quite a few of us who couldn't have registered if we had wanted to) |
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Quoted: Do some more research... Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I just wish they would change the law and make it mandatory for women! Gender rights and equality, ya know! Indeed. What country in the history of the world drafts teenage girls to fight its wars? israel? Do some more research... |
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Not entirely true.
<-----never registered for Selective Service and has a government job. (thanks to Gerald Ford there's quite a few of us who couldn't have registered if we had wanted to) Quoted:
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Only problem with that is by not registering he can never hold a gov't job, get a student loan and you get a $250 k fine and or 5 years in fed prison if you get caught. Not entirely true.
<-----never registered for Selective Service and has a government job. (thanks to Gerald Ford there's quite a few of us who couldn't have registered if we had wanted to) I fall into that age category. |
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Only problem with that is by not registering he can never hold a gov't job, get a student loan and you get a $250 k fine and or 5 years in fed prison if you get caught. Quoted:
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Don't hold your breath waiting for my son to register. Not gonna happen on my watch. Wait until he sees how expensive college is and then he'll change his mind. Easy to talk big in the internet, but it's another thing when you have to put your money where your is. |
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Quoted: Not entirely true. <-----never registered for Selective Service and has a government job. (thanks to Gerald Ford there's quite a few of us who couldn't have registered if we had wanted to) Quoted: Quoted: Only problem with that is by not registering he can never hold a gov't job, get a student loan and you get a $250 k fine and or 5 years in fed prison if you get caught. Not entirely true. <-----never registered for Selective Service and has a government job. (thanks to Gerald Ford there's quite a few of us who couldn't have registered if we had wanted to) |
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I heard a radio ad to register for Selective Service. I didn't realize that was still around. Why is it? We've had an all-volunteer military for over a generation. Shouldn't the draft registration be abolished? It doesn't seem to have any reason to exist or purose. |
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the jihadis will be upon us soon. From "shores of Tripoli," Barbary Wars to 9/11 attacks, attacks on US Embassies, RIP Ambassador Stevens, and much more to come.
but still no need for a draft as seen by the patriotic actions of our citizenry following the 9/11 attacks. |
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Quoted: As it should be Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Don't hold your breath waiting for my son to register. Not gonna happen on my watch. As it should be |