I need hard facts on the notion of an upcoming DRAFT

[Captain Absolut]

I want to know if all the draft boards are full and what is happening with those bills in congress about it.

Links and such would be helpful.

I just want to get a solid idea of what is really going on.

[keopeli]

1. Here's a place to start

http://www.antiwar.com/bock/b120203.html

Keo

[Captain Absolut]

2. thanks

:yourock:

[rocktivity]

3. Start at the very beginning

http://www.sss.gov

:headbang:
rocknation

[atreides1]

4. Not Full Yet

I just received my appointment certificate to the board here in AZ. Now I'm just waiting for the training session i'm supposed to attend,
and then that's it.

The exemption requirements have changed, so it won't be easy for anyone to skate out, like George and his palls did.

[never cry wolf]

5. Here's an email I sent to a RW buddie, with 2 draft age kids

http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00163:@@@L&summ2 - house bill

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN00089: senate bill

H.R.163
Title: To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.

The Draft*
>
> $28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS)
> budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as
> June 15, 2005. SSS must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the
> system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation.
> Please see website: http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view
> the SSS Annual Performance Plan - Fiscal Year 2004.
>
> The Pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350
> draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide..
> Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and
> influential members of Congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's
> prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan > permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S.

(b) AGE LIMITS- A person may be inducted under this Act only if the person has attained the age of 18 and has not attained the age of 26.

US Preparing for Military Draft in Spring 2005
by Adam Stutz
Vancouver IndyMedia - Wednesday January 28, 2004 at 09:50 AM

http://www.vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/105146.php

The current agenda of the US federal government is to reinstate the
draft in order to staff up for a protracted war on "terrorism."

Pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills S 89 and HR
163) would time the program so the draft could begin at early as
Spring 2005 -- conveniently just after the 2004 presidential election!

Reinstatement of the draft

Dear Friends and Family,

I urge you to read the article below on the current agenda of the
federal government to reinstate the draft in order to staff up for a
protracted war on "terrorism."

Pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills S 89 and HR
163) would time the program so the draft could begin at early as
Spring 2005 -- conveniently just after the 2004 presidential election!
But the administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed
NOW, so our action is needed immediately. Details and links follow.

If voters who currently support U.S. aggression abroad were confronted
with the possibility that their own children or grandchildren might
not have a say about whether to fight, many of these same voters might
have a change of mind. (Not that it should make a difference, but this
plan would among other things eliminate higher education as a shelter
and would not exclude women -- and Canada is no longer an option.)

Please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know, and all
the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And let your
children know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice
for change! Please also write to your representatives to ask them why
they aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and write
to newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not
covering this important story.


The Draft*

$28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS)
budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as
June 15, 2005. SSS must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the
system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation.
Please see website: http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view
the SSS Annual Performance Plan - Fiscal Year 2004.

The Pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350
draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide..
Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and
influential members of Congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's
prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may
have no choice but to draft.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5146.htm

Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and H.R. 163 forward this year,
entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "To provide for
the common defense by requiring that all young persons in
the United States, including women, perform a period of military
service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national
defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." These active
bills currently sit in the Committee on Armed Services.

Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam
era remember. College and Canada will not be options. In December
2001, Canada and the US signed a "Smart Border Declaration," which
could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's
Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Manley, and US Homeland Security
Director, Gov. Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan
which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of
people entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at making
the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates
higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to
postpone service until the end of their cur-rent semester. Seniors
would have until the end of the academic year.