Draft board now hiring

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[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: >

[John H K]

They are talking about reviving the draft.

"They" have obviously been successful in pulling the wool over your eyes.

"They" consist solely of antiwar activists spreading draft fear.

Call me crazy, but the "They" that actually matters is the military. The military has no need for draftees, no realistic forseeable need for draftees, and hates the very idea of draftees.

[wtc911]

What about WW2? The US had to draft over 10 million, with the most draft inductees entering service in 1943, the third year of the war. Don't kid yourself, there were millions of able bodied American men who waited around to be called up for that war.

[Mr Crontab]

If you think senator's and CEO's sons will be proportionally represented in a new draft, I want some of what you're smoking. Money and privledge *always* count.
Likewise if you think the draftboard will be overwhelmed with eager volunteers to go to Iraq or Syria.

[appalachian_dweller]

>> The fact that the draft board is gearing up indicates the gub is thinking ahead and positioning itself to do a rapid call up AFTER a horrendous attack. <<

That's the way it looks to me as well.

[HamiltonJay]

You misread what I said on Iraq and Syria... I said flatly you won't have volunteers lining up for that short of a organized attack on US.

And yes you are correct privledge aways counts.. but privledge will need to be far scaled back from the previous draft. If you think a draft will be instantiated where you get a pass just because you are in college today... you definately are nuts... it would never fly.

Of course the wealthy and connected will broker influence to bend or ignore the rules. However that doesn't mean the rules will favor them on paper like they clearly did in the vietnam era.

[AdamSelene235]

Article XIII Section 1: Neither slavery nor INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

You will only have access to your Constitutional "Rights" if the court wishes to grant cert. I seriously doubt cert would be granted to draft cases despite it being a obvious case of involuntary servitude.

[AdamSelene235]

Imagine if every day, before All My Children and Dan Rather and Everybody Loves Raymond, all channels showed a 10 second clip of American bodies falling from the sky and a trailer at the bottom, reading, "REMEMBER". Imagine if every newspaper had a small picture of the WTC burning at the upper left-hand corner. Imagine if our country and our president wasn't being despised and sabotaged from within at every opportunity. Kids might be pulling up their pants and standing in line out in front of the recruiting offices.

Imagine if we named the Saudis as our enemies.

[Sandy]

Perhaps you would prefer streets full of beggars and old age that is penalized by total indigence?

Yeah yeah, and grandma eating dogfood from a dumpster too. Cuz that's the only possible alternative to the current trillion-dollar-a-year system. Boo.

[proxy_user]

It was 335, I think.

[Redwood71]

cinfla,

You know what a volunteer is in the military. The draft is the same thing. I work with military every day and I run into too large a number that shouldn't be there. It might help if there was someone in the loop that could spot the problem earlier than basic. Additionally, why take out the ex-military personel anyway. If they have no input, they why are they excluded?

[Redwood71]

"What fitness?"

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We already spend a lot of taxpayer funds people getting spit out by the system. I'm a firm believer that theree should be a certain amount of psychiatric eval done at meps. It might grease the shoot to get the wrong ones out before too much money is blown on them. And having a ex-military person in the loop might see something.

[Paul C. Jesup]

You know what a volunteer is in the military. The draft is the same thing.

You need to lay off what you are using. The difference between a volunteer army and draft army is that in a volunteer army the people who entered chose to be there, while those that are drafted were not given that choose.

[Paul C. Jesup]

We already spend a lot of taxpayer funds people getting spit out by the system. I'm a firm believer that theree should be a certain amount of psychiatric eval done at meps. It might grease the shoot to get the wrong ones out before too much money is blown on them. And having a ex-military person in the loop might see something.

You won't not happen to know where that trillion dollars that the Pentagon lost went too.

[Redwood71]

Part of it, but it's sensitive.

[Redwood71]

"You need to lay off what you are using. The difference between a volunteer army and draft army is that in a volunteer army the people who entered chose to be there, while those that are drafted were not given that choose."

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A volunteer in the army is an old joke. It means never volunteer for anything because it probably isn't what you thought it was. And it is generally bad.

As for the volunteer military, I've been working with them now since 1975, and a previous six in a separate enlistment. (I took a break in between) I now train this army you say volunteers, and I have found quite a few that are there for the money, the eduation and hospital bennies, and the opportunity to learn a trade that they will use on the outside when they do not re-up after 4 or 6. And this includes professionals like doctors and lawyers. It ain't always as it seems. The biggest reason women left the theater in the first trip to Iraq was pregnency, accomplished there. I know one moron that crashed his motorcycle to get put out and another that smoked dope in front of his commander to lose his security clearance and erase his worldwide capacity. People have volunteered for the business for different reasons, some for the right ones.

[halfdome]

There were recruiters at the college night at my son's high school a couple weeks ago. One of them spoke to me when he overheard me telling my son to get information on financial aid. He came over and was telling me all the benefits my son would get if he joined the army -- college tuition, medical, etc. I jokingly said something about what about all these wars we're fighting. He sincerely told me that the army needs all kinds of people besides soldiers, and many people join the army to serve as doctors, accountants, file clerks, etc., and never even carry a gun. I don't know if what he said was true or not, but I do know that a large number of people join to get the benefits. Even Jessica Lynch joined to get an education, and didn't think she'd ever have to go to war.

[jimt]

As a volunteer US Army vet, I'm unalterably opposed to a draft.

It's nothing more than involuntary servitude.

If the policies of the government are so bad they can't get volunteers to support it, then maybe the policies need to change.

A "free country" with a draft is an oxymoron.

[damnlimey]

Sorry I couldn't get back sooner it looks like I missed a good discussion
To whoever asked how long this has been on the .mil website,it appears to be dated September 26 2003.

[Redwood71]

You are astute. It is unfortunate but there are always some that are opportunists and not really patriots. We have heard from the media how wonderful, brave, and patriotic are troops are but there are always some that mess that up in the barrel. It's the same in any business.

[Poohbah]

Former military personnel are not ruled out; retired personnel are. ("Retirees" are actually in a reserve status and subject to active-duty callup.)