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."
And the recruiter didn't look up your SSS status? Riiight.
As a matter of fact, I just looked up my status on the SSS site.
I’m still there.
If you become a citizen after 25, you are not required to have signed up.
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Not true. Non-citizen residents have to register if they’re the right age. My husband got citizenship last year. He’d lived in the US when he was of registration age and he had to explain, in detail, on the form why he had not registered. In his case, men born when he was were never required to register, whether citizens or not.
I have forwarded his case to Mr. Morris Dees. He will sue the government and jeremiah 1 will receive an all-expense paid education as an electrical engineer, (no matter what his intellectual capacity) a low-interest, no-down mortgage loan with paperwork by ACORN, and a commission as a major-general.
I became somewhat peeved in reading his screed. Do you think I might also qualify as bi-polar?
The first word is "Bull".
You get three guesses as to the second word ...
“Well, you see your honor, I was unsure of my gender when I turned 18 so I felt that I didn’t have to register.” Who knows, it might fly! If it works for the locker room and the bathroom, why not the war room?
I don't think so. These passages were more like "Dreams of My Father," the Ayers classic not-so-auto-biography.
Could have been. Especially talking about all the crimes committed.
Only if she/he is bi-polar.
PREVARICATOR!!
mrs
Sounds like BS to me. With or without a parent's signature, the military will not take a 16 year old.
Life is a series of choices. It’s hard to do the right thing, follow the rules, and work hard. It’s easy to live a life of crime, not follow the rules, then run to those who live by the rules and complain when you discover there’s a penalty for your behavior.
You chose the easy path. Now be a man, grow a pair, live with the consequences of your actions, and quit your whining.
If I am adding correctly there is no way you can be 32, sorry.
“From age 17 to 26 was spent either in jail or on the street waiting for jail.”
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“I commited my last crime over 12 years ago.”
26+12=38
unless your last crime was at 20 and you waited for a jail term for 6 years???
Check it out FReepers.
This is our next generation.
God have mercy.
Go enlist.
Then you can EARN a salary and GI Bill benefits.
You must have lived your life in a padded cell!
I think it does from federal grant money for school? I know it was passed in 1982 registering for selective service my question is in 1982 how old was cut off for registration?
I'm not so sure ...
I think he spent it DeepInTheHurtgenForest, with a ClassyGreenEyedBlonde.
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