Just Received My Appointment As Board Member of the Selective Service (Vanity)

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[Archangelsk]

And you can be damn certain that I will be a very hard sell on anyone asking for deferment if, God forbid, we institute a draft.

[KarinG1]

According to 'Dead or Alive?' he isn't dead yet. I was just wondering for, umm, academic reasons if somebody like that would get a deferment.

[sarasmom]

That sucks.
I have family that enlisted in the the Army.
Against my advice.
....
....
OK, I will join the Army.
Waive the age restrictions, as long as the physical requirements are met.
I swear I am not seeking an early retirement!

[mumps]

RE: infantry commander. Absolutely. Then again, you're a civilian dealing with the civilian side of things. For me, that would be a tough thing to do. Not the clearcut cases -- you know, the guys who are obviously fit or obviously unfit, but the cases that are tough calls. Those would hang on me.

[ONETWOONE]

Anyone who serves 20 plus years of active duty. After 30 years you go into the inactive reserves.

[bigsigh]

Thanx for seeing the humor. Best wishes!

[Free Baptist]

You mean, you have no personal position? What will you say to parents who have raised their children under very certain and specific biblical convictions regarding the home and family, and the distinction in roles, and the importance of the woman in the home?

[DugwayDuke]

I'll be sixty next year. Can I have a deferment, pretty please?

[Free Baptist]

I have read LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU, YOUNG AND FEMALE IN THE U.S. ARMY, by Kayla Williams, a former female Army enlisted soldier, who recently served in Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom (e.g since 2002). (New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005). I have taken careful notes. I served 6-1/2 years in the U.S. Air Force and was an NCO in Charge of a Civil Engineering structural section where females served. I saw the females on the flight lines and in the (male) barracks.

We have four daughters. One is weapons trained. I will train the others as they get old enough. Although they are being taught to love their country, and to be willing to die for it, they will NOT ever be inducted into the U.S. Military and be exposed to the disgusting disrespect for womanhood and Christian morality that exists therein.

We keep enough contact with people in our districts congressional office to know that a military draft (the pros and cons)is a regular topic of discussion in the halls of Congress, and added to this discussion nowadays is the element of "What about females...if we do 'awaken' a draft?" Any of us would be very foolish to think that there are not those in high places in these United States who want the further social experimentation that would be forced by a draft of women.

Letters from our elected Representatives state only that "last year we voted against a draft," and the answer is with an elitist attitude, and perhaps with them thinking that we are so stupid to think that they couldn't re-institute a draft this year or the next. What they voted against last year, they might approve this year, or next. Never do they state any moral position on the matter---just that they haven't voted to reinstate a draft...YET. And they (Congressman and Senators)all but refuse to answer our questions in writing with regard to women in the military.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of parents who are prepared to resist the calling-up of our daughters. We are PATRIOTS. What kind of nation is this that we are willing to die for when it sends its MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN into combat zones, which we certainly do now in Iraq.

[Kevin OMalley]

My hope is that you clean up this ridiculous hole in the system. Posted on a prior thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1347418/posts

To: RockinRye
I have a Kafkaesque experience with this nightmare bureaucracy. I fulfilled my obligation to register for the draft when I was a teenager, but I do not have any evidence of it, I just didn't think about that part. When I tried to apply for loans during school, I was told that I wasn't registered for the draft. No problem, I'll just register. They told me I was too OLD to register for the draft. I was consequently never able to prove that I fulfilled the requirements and I never got any school loans. I probably will never get a guvmint job.

I agree with Reagan that we should have an all-volunteer army except in times of declared war. And I also agree that this is a sexist policy because women are not required to register. But the thing that really bites is that a person should be allowed to re-register if the paperwork gets "lost".



40 posted on 02/21/2005 4:02:52 PM PST by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)

[lastmanstanding]

I didn't retire. I got out after 8 long years that went by fast just the same.

They're subject to recall until they're 60, BTW.