Draft board now hiring

www.defendamerica.mil (Via Fark) ^

[damnlimey]

Serve Your Community and the Nation
Become a Selective Service System Local Board Member
The Selective Service System wants to hear from men and women in the community who might be willing to serve as members of a local draft board. Prospective Board Members must be citizens of the United States , at least 18 years old, and registered with the Selective Service (if male). Prospective Board Members may not be an employee of any law enforcement occupation, not be an active or retired member of the Armed Forces, and not have been convicted of any criminal offense. Once identified as qualified candidates for appointment, prospective Board Members are recommended by the Governor and appointed by the Director of Selective Service, who acts on behalf of the President in making appointments. Each new member receives 12 hours of initial training after appointment, followed by 4 hours of annual training for as long as he or she remains in the position. They may serve as Board Members for up to 20 years, if desired.	Local Board Members are uncompensated volunteers who play an important community role closely connected with our Nation's defense. If a military draft becomes necessary, approximately 2,000 Local and Appeal Boards throughout America would decide which young men, who submit a claim, receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service, based on Federal guidelines. Positions are available in many communities across the Nation. If you believe you meet the standards for Selective Service Board Membership, and wish to be considered for appointment please visit our web site at: >

[damnlimey]

Didn't see this posted anywhere yet.
Anyone else see this?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Interesting . . .

[proxy_user]

"Prospective Board Members must be citizens of the United States , at least 18 years old, and registered with the Selective Service (if male).

I've still got my draft card from 1971. Do you think they've still got my records?

[Rebelbase]

Very intersting........

[Rebelbase]

Very interesting....

[Redwood71]

"Prospective Board Members may not be an employee of any law enforcement occupation, not be an active or retired member of the Armed Forces, and not have been convicted of any criminal offense.

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They just took out anyone who would have an understanding of the military or its lifestyle. How in the H@$$ can anyone determine the fitness of a prospective volunteer without knowing what's involved?

[Paul C. Jesup]

That only reason there is no serious anti-war movement is because there is no draft.

If the draft comes back, it will get ugly.

[HoundsTooth_BP]

When something is working, why fix it?

[HamiltonJay]

What fitness? You are abled bodied and mentally stable, your in.... boot camp will beat whatever liberal crap nonsense you have rattling in your kid brain out of ya.

Don't care what daddy's bank account is, or who mommy's sleeping with...

[TonyInOhio]

Draft boards have been in existence since at least the late 1930s. The draft was ended in the mid-1970s, but the boards remained, at teh ready in the event the draft is ever reinstated.

[HamiltonJay]

Nope, only reason there was an anti war movement in Vietnam was because not the draft, but the KGB actively organizing and spearheading it.

And far more "protestors" in the 60s and 70s were way more about getting high and laid than worried about the war.

[Paul C. Jesup]

The only partically true because even my southern conservative parents and grand-parents were against the draft.

Go read the FR threads posted a year ago, the only ones who support a draft are the ones who want to start and anti-war movement, the socialists even openly stated that.

[Paul C. Jesup]

When something is working, why fix it?

To screw it up, our voluteer military as a fighting force is nearly unstoppable.

But these troops were not trained to be the police, but they are not really doing that bad of it job either.

[HamiltonJay]

Oh I have no doubt that many would try to use a draft if created as a sore spot to try to win supporters... but you see this isn't Vietnam. And unlike Vietnam, young americans are actually more for this war than many older americans.... would a draft affect that? Sure I am sure it would, but this isn't 1968.

I know pleanty of ex-hippies who openly admit they only went to the protests because that's where the easy women were.... the free lovers and the dope. Effectively young horny men go to where the women want them to go... and the drugs didn't hurt either...

The antiwar movement in the late 60s was not a huge organized principled movement, it was a handful of hard core believers, funded and directed by the KGB et al... and a lot of just bored overprivaleged kids. There will be no exhemption for college in the next draft if it happens, so believe me you won't see the crap that went on in the late 60s and early 70s.

[kinghorse]

you're dreaming.

[KarlInOhio]

And far more "protestors" in the 60s and 70s were way more about getting high and laid than worried about the war.

Bill Clinton gives that comment one thumbs up.

[cinFLA]

They just took out anyone who would have an understanding of the military or its lifestyle. How in the H@$$ can anyone determine the fitness of a prospective volunteer without knowing what's involved?

The draft board does NOT determine fitness. They draft, you go get your medical and if you pass you go fight. Second, the draft does NOT recruit volunteers; they draft.

[cinFLA]

Perhaps you don't remember WWII.

[Paul C. Jesup]

You could look at it in a way that the KGB supported the draft so it would divide the country then they stoked the fires on each side of the issue to further divide the country.

Anyway, considering the number of draft dodgers who SUPPORT this new draft, the very hypocrisy of it all may spark a civil war/revolution.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Perhaps you don't remember WWII.

You forget that the voluteer rate was at a all time high during WWII.