Posted on 11/15/2021 8:27:34 AM PST by John Leland 1789
CONCERNING THE PROVISION IN THE NDAA WHICH WOULD REQUIRE WOMEN TO REGISTER FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE (i.e., register for any potential military draft):
November 15, 2021
"The House and Senate Armed Services Committees agreed to amendments that require women to register for the draft. The House passed the NDAA with this provision and now the Senate is likely to vote on this next week. It is critical that the Senate remove this provision! Would you take a moment right now and ask your senators to vote against drafting our daughters?"
~~~Family Research Council.
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Forget the military readiness arguments for and against!! Drafting young women in their prime child-bearing years, taking them out from under the protection of their fathers or husbands, hollows out the core of American society, is destructive to the institution of the family, and is contrary to the instructions on family, headship, and womanhood found in the Holy Scriptures.
RESIST! WE SHALL NOT COMPLY. We are advising ALL women, and especially Christian women to NOT comply with registration of their daughters or young wives.
Washington County, Indiana
Copies to:
Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN-9), State Sen. Erin Houchin (R-47),State Rep. (R-73)
Women serve in all branches of the military, so there is no reason why they cannot be drafted for a non-combat support role, freeing up a MAN to serve in a combat role.
Of course, there will never be another draft, but in the interest of equality and equal protection under the law, 18 year old women should be required to REGISTER for the draft alongside their 18 year old male counterparts.
I said it before and I will say it again, I am against anyone registering for the draft or even being drafted, male or female, I take my beliefs from Robert A Heinlein on that subject.
" . . . be drafted for a non-combat . . . "
Under federal law, the purpose of Selective Service itself is to select men for COMBAT ROLES, not non-combat.
" . . . there will never be another draft . . ."
Twenty-five years ago Rep. Lee Hamilton (R-IN-9th) wrotre to me that women will never be in combat roles and therefore they will never be required to register for the draft, since finding COMBAT troops is the reason for the Selective Service System.
Never say that something won't happen in this day of political correctness.
Women in combat, or forcing women to register for any potential draft is NOT equal protection under the law, because women are not men, and men are not women.
Women are already serving in combat roles literally, but voluntarily enlisting, not being compelled.
Creating a situation wherein young women in their most healthy and safe child-bearing years could be compelled to leave their husband and and children to serve away from their families, and be sent abroad hollows out the core of our society and contributes to the disolution of the home and family.
As a pastor, I know that there will be a great resistance to this, and we pray that it will be a powerful one for the sake of Biblical Christian homes, so badly needed at our nation's core.
We have a young married daughter in that age bracket who has three children already. She will refuse to register. She will not acquiesce to the potential that she will be compelled to leave her husband and children to potentially be placed in a combat arena with men to whom she is not married.
We have another daughter (of four total) who is 20, who is planning deliberately on marrying and raising children to serve Christ, as she was trained. She will never register.
We will openly lead the resitence to this, and our elected representatives are already apprised of it.
Of course I am off my nut...Yet there are lots of Americans who are out of their minds. There were girls in high school who absolutely worshiped the idea of guys going off to war. Those girls considered a guy loosing his life in a far away war to be incredibly romantic. It is almost as if a guy getting killed in a war was a wonderful event for those girls. Maybe, if those girls could be placing their own lives on the line in a foreign country, there might be less enthusiasm for un-winable US invasions of foreign dirt-bag countries.
Nothing would make the lefties happier than to be able to freeze-out the daughters of Christians from federal jobs and any other perks that are used to encourage registration.
A - we’re never going to do another draft in America so we should just end the registration
B - as for drafting women, works for Israel
Meh. We draft them in our country
I don't really know if I'm in favor of registration or not... I waffle on the point... but if we enforce registration, then equal protection demands that registration be gender neutral.
PING
There were a few. But Viet Nam tainted the concept forever. Heck we just went through a time with basically two long term undeclared wars and no draft. It’s a political 3rd rail, and most of our military leaders don’t want it, they prefer soldiers that want to be there.
We will resist. Decision made a long time ago when they first started talking about this. I’ve got skin in the game so to speak.
Only those women who consider themselves woman’s libbers should be drafted.
No equality if only men register for the draft. Couldn’t women just identify as men anyway, given the state of today’s military?
I don’t know if the ratio has changed but it used to be about 3 support troops for every 1 combat troop.
Does Israel deploy women thousands of miles away from Israel, or are they deployed primarily for defense of Israel?
I appreciate your passion, I really do. I have a young married son with children, and your points apply to him, as well.
What's your stance on my son? Should he be compelled to leave his wife and children? Is his life, his well-being, the welfare of his family... are these less important?
I don’t believe there should be a draft at all, but if there is, it should apply equally to all young people, not just young men. I enlisted during the last years of the war in Vietnam, and served with a number of folks who enlisted in the USAF to avoid being drafted into the Army. It was pretty universally a bad experience to have to work with folks who were there to avoid combat. At the time, there was an entire separate structure for Women in the Air Force, called WAF. There were very few women officers, and only slightly more NCO’s who were women. There were different physical standards for men and women. Not all of them were performance related. That shouldn’t be, either.
WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) 1973-1997
Men and women are different. It is time for us to shed the idea of men and women are the same. By nature, and by God, men are made to protect women and children. The image of a “GI Jane” that can fight on equal terms with the strongest of men is a Hollywood myth.
Please cite the federal law stating that Selective Service is exclusively for combat roles.
Here's the entire Selective Service law:
https://www.sss.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MSSA-2003.pdf
And here is the process for activating the draft. As the law specifies, the details of any activated draft would be determined by Congress:
https://www.sss.gov/about/return-to-draft/#s1
Overview of What Would Occur if the United States Returned to a Draft:1. Draft Authorization: Congress and the President
A national emergency, exceeding the Department of Defense’s capability to recruit and retain its total force strength, requires Congress to amend the Military Selective Service Act to authorize the President to induct personnel into the Armed Forces.2. Activation of Selective Service System
Selective Service activates and orders all personnel to report for duty. Reserve Force Officers, along with selected military retirees, begin to open Area Offices to accept registrant claims. Local, District Appeal, and National Board members are notified to report for refresher training.3. The Lottery
A publicly attended, nationally televised and live-streamed lottery is conducted. The lottery, a random drawing of birthdays and numbers, establishes the order in which individuals receive orders to report for induction. The first to receive induction orders are those whose 20th birthday falls during the year of the lottery. If required, additional lotteries are conducted for those 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 19, and finally 18.5 years-old. Learn more here.4. Orders to Report to MEPS
Induction notices are sent and registrants may now make claims if desired for a postponement, deferment or exemption. Inductees report to a local Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) for induction. At MEPS, registrants are given a physical, mental, and moral evaluation to determine whether they are fit for military service. Once notified of the results of the evaluation, a registrant will either be inducted into military service or sent home.5. Activation of Local and District Appeal Boards
Local and Appeal Boards begin to process registrant claims for classification as conscientious objectors, dependency hardships, ministerial and ministerial student deferments, and appeals.6. Induction of First Draftees
According to current Department of Defense (DoD) requirements, Selective Service must deliver the first inductees to the military within 193 days from the onset of a crisis and the law being updated to authorize a draft.
It is very likely that Congress would exempt women from the draft, if one were to ever be required. It is also almost certain that women with children would be exempted under dependency hardship reasons.
But again, women serve in all branches of the military, so there is no reason not to at least treat them equally and have them register with SSS.
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