How about NOT bring back the draft at all? (Unless it’s for a WWII-type crisis, when every swinging Richard and Jane gets called.)
Females weren’t drafted in WWII, but females have been desperately sought since we ended the draft and keep facing shortages.
We were so desperate in the current wars, although our man power needs were relatively small, that we raised enlistment age so that we could accept 42 year old women.
Forced service is antithetical to freedom.
That being said, if men have to register , women should have to as well.
All can serve in some way! National Service should be Universal—18 months to build hiking trails, work in National Parks, help re-build the cities, man the borders, Serve in the military (There has always been a place for women—Soldiers got to eat, need clean cloths, Pleasure women as they had in the Foreign Legion etc...) This would help to bring national unity. How about a chain of national health clinics for low coast care for all? Manned by medics doing national service—Basic care only? ALL Would serve-No one gets out! Serve when you are 18 for 2 years or delay and serve 5. (Or volunteer when you are 16) Those who do not fit in should go to the Pioneer Labor batalions to build things, dig canals, wall for border, forts, roads, here the Non-Coms would have the power to shoot any who disobey! We could empty the prisons to fill these ranks. The Pioneers—the best—can go into a branch of the “Shock Troops” to be the first to land on the beaches-—use these troops as “Cannon Foder” they come back in body bags or come back covered with glory! They could serve in the VA hospitals as well—keeping them clean—cooking for and serving the recovering soldiers. Re-building them. All would be trained in First Aide, Marching and use of Fire arms. How about a foreign legion as well? Foreigners, Illegals, serve five years, and earn citizen ship for themselves and families. Use them to do the dirty work—the hard fighting. But give them the best officers—all must learn English! Form a new branch of service as well—The Border Guard! Tanks and Armored Cars to patrol the borders (North as well as south) and Man the Wall and Forts. Build a training ship—a tall square rigged ship for the Navy! The USS America—to help train cadets! How about a fancy yacht for the President and his family as well! Ran by the Navy—The USS Liberty. To be used for meetings with foreign leaders—a pleasure yacht with guns (it would be classified as a gunboat).
The youn people of America are a great resource that should be used for the greater glory of the Nation—this draft—or National Service—could do this. How many “Bad Kids” were saved by a hitch in the military? How many could we saved? The nut jobs like the Killer in Santa Barbara—could be identified and placed in a Mental Hospital where he could get the care he needed to be a useful member of society.