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Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« on: May 30, 2024, 12:57:41 pm »
Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
Registration for Selective Service is already mandatory but a proposed law would automatically sign up men between 18 and 25 years old for national draft rolls.

BY PATTY NIEBERG | PUBLISHED MAY 29, 2024 2:22 PM EDT
 
American men ages 18 to 25 would be automatically signed up for the draft if a measure making its way through Congress becomes law.


The proposal by Rep. Chrissy Houlahan would mean that men would be automatically registered for the draft when they turn 18. Under current federal law, all American male citizens and green card holders 18 to 25 years old must register with the Selective Service, but the requirement to do so falls on individuals. Those roles would be the basis of a military draft if Congress or the President decided to implement one, which Houlahan’s proposed measure does not address.

Women would continue to be exempt from Selective Service registration under the proposal submitted as an amendment to the national defense policy bill for fiscal year 2025.

During debate on her amendment last week, Houlahan argued that the measure would allow Congress to spend more money on “readiness and towards mobilization” instead of “education and advertising campaigns driven to register people.”

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/congress-weighing-automatic-registration-for-wartime-draft/
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2024, 01:01:47 pm »
Congress is nothing but a bunch of sexist pigs.  Women have earned the right to be drafted too and risk the honor of going to war and being blown to bits.  They have worked hard for the right. *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2024, 01:16:39 pm »
I thought registration laws were already in place.

Only us post Vietnam War kids born in 1957, 58, and 59 didn't have to.
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2024, 01:51:04 pm »
Why is Congress suddenly interested in automagically registering folks for a future draft?

What has made a do-nothing, be-nothing Congress get off it's dynfunctional fat ass to dedicate time and resources into thinking about the next draft?  Are they planning a future war?
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2024, 01:54:24 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on May 30, 2024, 01:16:39 pm
I thought registration laws were already in place.

Only us post Vietnam War kids born in 1957, 58, and 59 didn't have to.

I don't think it's automatic? I turned 18 in 1994, i had to do it manually.
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2024, 03:06:59 pm »
In 1974 I had to go down to the Selective Service office in the P.O. and register and I got my draft card at that time.

I had the card up until my last move when it went missing.  My status was 1-H

At least I didn't have to wait with thee others on the Group W bench.
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2024, 03:08:03 pm »
How about automatically register anyone sent to juvee court, male or female... Then three hits at juvee court makes you a "volunteer" when you turn 18...
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2024, 04:15:17 pm »
Britain is also considering this too.


Sunak’s plan to make 18-year-olds do national service grabs attention on UK election trail



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LONDON (AP) — All 18-year-olds in Britain will have to perform a year of mandatory military or civilian national service if the governing Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election, the party said Sunday.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to bring back a form of national service for the first time in more than 60 years, seeking to energize his election campaign after a faltering start.

The U.K. introduced military conscription for men and some women during World War II, and imposed 18 months of mandatory military service for men between 1947 and 1960. Since then Britain has had an all-volunteer military whose size has steadily shrunk.

Under the plan, a small minority of 18-year-olds — 30,000 out of an estimated 700,000 — would spend 12 months in the military, working in areas such as logistics or cyber defense. The rest would spend one weekend a month working for charities, community groups, or organizations such as hospitals, the police and the fire service.






https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-national-service-rishi-sunak-fdaf7e38793434e4f060c11735fef71e
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2024, 05:12:31 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on May 30, 2024, 01:54:24 pm
I don't think it's automatic? I turned 18 in 1994, i had to do it manually.

Sorry, I was thinking required vs. automatic.
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2024, 05:37:57 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on May 30, 2024, 05:12:31 pm
Sorry, I was thinking required vs. automatic.

I got a letter requesting my presence to register.  They prolly don't  do that anymore.
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2024, 05:43:38 pm »
You don't need a Weatherman to see what's eventually coming down the road.

I'm probably the only active member of this forum who actually WAS drafted.

And I may be the only person you ever meet who was drafted not once, but TWO times (in 1969 and then again in 1970).
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Re: Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2024, 05:48:52 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on May 30, 2024, 05:43:38 pm
You don't need a Weatherman to see what's eventually coming down the road.

I'm probably the only active member of this forum who actually WAS drafted.

And I may be the only person you ever meet who was drafted not once, but TWO times (in 1969 and then again in 1970).
was looking at the classifications.  You must have been special.
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