I believe that the Selective Service needs to advance by a half-step. By that I mean that Congress should require every person who has to register for the Selective Service to report for 8 hrs of training in their birth month. For this 1 day, they would receive $50 as compensation.
The time spent would be used to:
1) update the registrant's records. Address, height, weight, education, job, medical overview, shoe size etc.
2) provide weapons familiarization with the M-16... dummy rounds only.
3) basic first aid. Treatment for breaks, bleeding, breathing, etc.
4) education on what a draft would look like, under what authority, provide a copy of the Constitution etc.
The processing centers could be run by Reserve / National Guard troops with assistance from IRR.
Based on the 2000 census figures, there were 2,078,853 males and 1,972,745 females aged 18. If you trained these aproximately 4 million per year for one day approximating 333,000 a month at $50 per person, you would pay $200 million a year. The logistics involved would include the trainers who would have to be paid, the facilities, and administrative overhead to process and transport these folks. To what end? At what cost?
Such feel good measures are not worth the time or expense nor do they contribute to the overall defense of the country. We can use the $200 million plus other costs more beneficially in other areas.