Posted on 10/22/2009 9:43:13 AM PDT by Jeremiah1
When I found out about the selective service registration I was devastated. I am 32 yrs. old, have a wife and three children and am struggling to make dinner much less a future. I was recently layed off for the second time in 1 yr. Going back to the unemployment office was something I dreaded. I heard that President Obama made it possible to recieve unemployment benefits while attending school to change your career!! Fantastic, I thought. After alot of thought and planning my wife and I decided this was best for our family. I went to my local college, filled out all the forms and registered. I paid the non refundable fees which left us with 60.00 to our names thinking, it will be alright. I was told to fill out an FAFSA application online to pay for the schooling, great because there is no way I could afford the schooling to become an electrical engineer. I fill it all out and am told my schooling is covered %100. Things were finally looking up until I was told that there was a problem with my application processing. I was told that I never registered for the selective service. I had never heard of the selective service before that email. I called the number in the email for the selective service. They explained this is the law and by the time your 18 and blah blah blah. No one told me, not school, not friends, not family!!! No one!!! I was told , Sir, I'm sure someone told you to go to the post office and fill out the card. No, no one did. Why wouldn't I have done it I asked. See, for me the military wasn't an option. I wanted to join the military while still in high school. My best friend entered the delayed entry program for the Marine Corps, I wanted to go Navy. All my mother had to do was sign the paperwork but she wouldn't , she said No. There was nothing the recruiter could do. I had just turned 16 yrs. old at that time. I was put out of the house that year for a multitude of reasons both my wrongs and my mothers. I was on the streets and bounced from friends houses, to the woods and then finally Jail. I turned 18 yrs. old in jail. As soon as I got out of jail I went to my local recruiters office to enlist only to find that I must first complete my 5 yrs of probation. Meanwhile it is discovered that I have bipolarism. The military wouldn't have taken me anyway. From age 17 to 26 was spent either in jail or on the street waiting for jail. I didn't have any real family or friends or any kind of hope. People didn't bother to lend a hand much less inform me of some post card. The worst part about this is that at 32 years old it is hard for me to find work even though I earned 2 diplomas in prison. I commited my last crime over 12 years ago. I now have a family of 5 that all depend on me through God and I can't return to school and become a more productive member of society like I did while incarcerated. All because of a secret post card. What may be common knowledge to some isn't so common to others. I think G.I. Joe said it best with, "And knowing is half the battle." They could've put the selective service requirements in the credits, I would've known, would be starting school in a few weeks and wouldn't be thinking of becoming a bigger criminal than I ever was before. See now I feel like I don't belong, I have never belonged and no matter what I do I get knocked down, it makes you want to knock back. Then I think of those other 4 innocent family members of mine. I just don't know what to do at this point. I will lose my home and everything I worked for to provide these 3 children the life I never had and my own government is helping that happen. To boot, now they accept felons in the service and it still doesn't help me. Isn't the service a federal job? How many enlisted felons serving in Iraq never filed a selective service registration? My grandfather, who is a WWII Veteran said with tears, "Jer, this isn't the same country I fought for and watched so much sacrificed for."
Guess his shift key wasn’t working.
Hate when that happens!!!
Some of us will be sympathetic here. Given more urgent & unpleasant ongoing life matters to deal with, one could overlook the requirement to sign up - it’s not like anyone is REQUIRED to make sure YOU know about it. Heck, some wish they _hadn’t_ signed up.
Get a lawyer to clear it up (insofar as it can be). Call the Selective Service board and ask what can be done. Sign up already.
View it as a problem to be solved, and solve it in a matter-of-fact way. Just do what needs to be done. Be proactive.
LOL
He should blame Jimmy Carter. Under Nixon, the draft was ended, but Carter started the registration requirement. I think the reason was to put some fear into the Soviets when they invaded Afghanistan.
Yeah, but he raises an interesting point in the original post. You register for the Selective Service around your 18th birthday, and not after your 25th, but he was in jail (supposedly) from age 17 to age 26...and men in jail are not supposed to register, only within 30 days after they get out. So if he was in the graybar hotel for the entire period of time that he was liable to register with Selective Service (with no breaks or releases), how’s that handled?
}:-)4
32 yrs old...last crime over 12 yrs ago...off probation and needs a job...military now accepts felons...i say sign up today....that should take care of all the problems....
LOL!
I honestly think that AxelMite-whatever had a real problem. He mentioned his fox was a gay furry and didn’t seem to find that unusual.
I have no idea how he found FR and why he posted those threads.
You may have missed it, but he put in a vanity thread asking how to be removed from FR. He thought “furry-furry” was a better board.
Needless-to-say, the Admin at the time removed him.
I just checked myself, haven’t thought about it in years. I certainly don’t doing it on my 18th birthday, but that’s what it says I did.
zotta
Yeah, it’s cat fud.
I’m still searching for the world’s smallest violin to play. It must be with Deb’s green sweater.
I disagree. This run-on paragraph is a crime of literature. You should go turn yourself in.
That’s odd, we are almost the same age, and I don’t know how you could have missed information on Selective Service. It was on every tenth commercial, every school I went to- public and private had posters and as Jr’s and Sr’s, we were reminded constantly. When I applied for college, it was one of the first things we were asked (and I didn’t apply for financial aid so it wasn’t just part of that..)
Today you might. You don’t even have to be “bi”—you can just be “polar”, i.e. manic 99% of the time. And thank you for noticing the finesse I displayed in giving him an answer!
parsy, who appreciates astuteness
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‘oriface’? ... Laz, who’s using your account at FR?
It don’t read the same. I doubt it is same person.
parsy, the unsure
I remember those names from long ago. What happened to them?
parsy, who was away for a few years
I saw that worthless opus. I knew he was around the bend early on, but good entertainment. He accused Petronski of “Fursecution” ROFL.
It's like listening to the teletubbies read Kant in german.
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