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Republicans blast defense budget proposal requiring women to register for draft
New York Post ^ | July 25, 2021 | Mark Moore

Posted on 07/25/2021 5:21:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Republicans are blasting a provision in the federal defense budget that would require women to register for the military draft. ​

The ​Senate National Defense Authorization Act, approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, contains an amendment that would compel women between the ages of 18 to 25 to sign up for the Selected Service, just as men that age are required to do.

Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, an Iraq War veteran known as a hawk on defense issues, and Josh Hawley of Missouri voted against the proposal.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conscription; mensrights; selectiveservice; thedraft; women
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1 posted on 07/25/2021 5:21:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Why bother making them register? Just get rid of the draft board entirely. We haven’t needed them since at least 1975.


2 posted on 07/25/2021 5:22:49 PM PDT by Kevmo (Right now there are 500 political prisoners in Washington, DC.)
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To: nickcarraway

Are they being held to the same height, weight and APFT standards?


3 posted on 07/25/2021 5:22:51 PM PDT by MSF BU
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To: nickcarraway

Why? This is what the Country wants along with Trannies playing in Women’s Sports, right? LOL


4 posted on 07/25/2021 5:23:53 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: nickcarraway

Just like the old commercial…..

“You asked for it! You got it!”


5 posted on 07/25/2021 5:24:44 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: nickcarraway

1 bathroom, 1 bunkroom, 1 haircut...

It would be like alien 2 or whatever that movie was were the Marines went after the alien...in outer space of course.


6 posted on 07/25/2021 5:24:47 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Kevmo
We haven’t needed them since at least 1975.

Jimmy Carter installed the current iteration. Reagan campaigned on getting rid of it and changed his mind.
7 posted on 07/25/2021 5:27:19 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“At first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.” -- Hemingway)
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To: nickcarraway

Whatever it takes to destroy the nuclear family unit.


8 posted on 07/25/2021 5:28:04 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: blueunicorn6
“You asked for it! You got it!”

I didn't ask for it. My daughter didn't ask for it. The lefties will change the armed forces/draft to do the left's bidding, so the "lesson" will be lost on them.
9 posted on 07/25/2021 5:28:50 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“At first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.” -- Hemingway)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I doubt a majority of woman asked for it. Is there any polling? I doubt 33% of women want it.


10 posted on 07/25/2021 5:31:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Clutch Martin

Smile at this stuff. Joke about it at your own peril. Those Marxists are serious. They have the senior officers, the generals mostly bought and paid for. If they can get a good percentage of the active duty to fall in line they will have their “Brown Shirts or Stasi” or whatever you want to call them. None of this is going to end well.


11 posted on 07/25/2021 5:32:24 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Dr. Sivana

In 1980 I went down to the post office to register for the draft.

About 15 years later I applied for financial aid in college. I was told I didn’t register. What a crock of shiite.

So I said, “no problem, I’ll just re-register.” Then I was told I was TOO OLD.

I tried to work with my senator, Dianne Feinstein, to get this law fixed. She couldn’t do anything about it.

Now THERE is a Kafkaesque bureaucracy if ever there was one. Get rid of it.


12 posted on 07/25/2021 5:32:25 PM PDT by Kevmo (Right now there are 500 political prisoners in Washington, DC.)
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To: nickcarraway

This is a means of the left to cripple the US military by making conscription impossible.


13 posted on 07/25/2021 5:32:51 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (A world in which dogs write poetry is more believable than the world as seen through the Media)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Drafting women is the logical outcome of putting women in Combat Arms.

Did you and your daughter fight to keep women out of the Combat Arms?


14 posted on 07/25/2021 5:33:39 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: nickcarraway

I disagree with the Republicans on this one. Women should be subject to the draft should we ever need to implement it again. That’s equality.


15 posted on 07/25/2021 5:34:16 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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They should register.

If called they can fill noncombat roles that need to be filled. Way more of those roles exist to suport actual combat and frontline troops.


16 posted on 07/25/2021 5:35:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/268928-poll-most-women-oppose-registering-for-draft[52%-38% (2016)

59 percent want women drafted (2013)

17 posted on 07/25/2021 5:35:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Women only want “equality” when they perceive it benenfits them. Thats why.


18 posted on 07/25/2021 5:36:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kevmo

Did you not get some kind of paper work or receipt showing that you had signed up?


19 posted on 07/25/2021 5:37:38 PM PDT by VMI70 (2 wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.)
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At the time I asked men my age if THEY ever got such paperwork. About a third of them did NOT.

No, I never got such bullshiite paperwork. This is one federal agency that should simply be obliterated. It can be replaced by 1 person at a desk checking social security numbers.


20 posted on 07/25/2021 5:39:33 PM PDT by Kevmo (Right now there are 500 political prisoners in Washington, DC.)
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