September 22, 2004
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Saturday, May 1, 2004
Selective Service eyes women's draft
The proposal would also require registration of critical skills
WASHINGTON -- The chief of the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and requiring that young Americans regularly inform the government about whether they have training in niche specialties needed in the armed services.
The proposal also seeks to extend the age of draft registration to 34 years old, up from 25.
"In line with today's needs, the Selective Service System's structure, programs and activities should be re-engineered toward maintaining a national inventory of American men and, for the first time, women, ages 18 through 34, with an added focus on identifying individuals with critical skills."
The agency has begun designing procedures for a targeted registration and draft of people with computer and language skills, in case military officials and Congress authorize it.
Americans would then be required to regularly update the agency on their skills until they reach age 35.
From HomerTheBrave
Comments (9)
Well it's about frickin' time! Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't want any of my children to be drafted into the military - but if we seriously want women to be considered equals to men in this country we must have them register for the draft as well! Identifying critical skills seems to be a common sense move as well.
when do those Bushtwins go (or, like dad at their age, do they get to go drink in Alabama and call it "military service")
In that case, I'll claim to be neither man nor woman and to have no skills.
Yup. That's been on the books for quite some time now. Proposed by Democrats actually.
No one should be required to register for the draft. Women should particularly not be. How can we survive as a species if our women are dying too? Women have to carry a child for nine months while men can spread their seed in a matter of minutes.
No. No. No. Women should not be drafted. We would be going backwards. Not forwards. Men and women are different. Is it really necessary to have to say that?
hmmmmm not to react to this article's content, I wonder just how often a proposal of this kind gets bandied about and what sorts of events trigger this sort of proposal.
yep, I'm skillless too!
I would never support reinstatement of the draft - for either gender. Our militia should be strictly volunteer, and if the government cannot offer enough incentives to entice individuals into the military, then it's probably because we have stuck our noses far too often into places we should never have ventured into, with no viable plans for withdrawal, and no certainty that vets will receive the benefits promised and due them for living up to their end of the bargain.
Well I guess it's just a matter of time before this happens. Women have insisted on equal rights for so long that drafting them as well as men makes sense, if you believe in the whole equal rights thing.
But I'm with StephenB. I once read in an Ask Marilyn column why the population actually boomed in our country after WW2, instead of declining, since so many men died. She said that the population depends on the number of women, not the number of men. I thought that was very interesting.
Nooo!!
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