I just got my application for the SSS board....

[graham67]

I filled out the online application last week to volunteer for the Selective Service System local board. They sure didn't waste any time sending it out. The application itself is remarkably simple. It says that a Reserve Force Officer will contact me after they receive the completed application. Has anyone been accepted yet, and what should I expect during the interview?

[tnlefty]

1. My snail mail application came with a booklet and a letter stressing

that despite rumors of bringing back a draft there wasn't any cause for concern at this time. Yeah, whatever.

After I submitted the application I received a letter stating it had been received, the same no need for a draft at this time statements, and that the application would be kept on file and vacancies would be filled should a local board be necessary.

I'm curious about the interview process also.

[struggle4progress]

2. Some links on the draft

Government: No truth to draft rumors
Administration denies having a plan to bring back draft after elections.
http://www.news-leader.com/today/0607-Government-106080.html

Two bills -- Senate 89 and House 163 -- are currently under consideration that would allow the federal government to restart drafting young people into the military as early as June 2005.
The White House budget proposal includes an additional $28 million to the Selective Service System to prepare, and that office has been asked to report to President Bush by March 31 that it is ready to resume operations, which have been dormant since the early 1970s.
This comes on top of the Pentagon's announcement this week that it will withhold transfers and departures from the service of troops who are part of units scheduled to go to either Iraq or Afghanistan. Apparently the pace is brisk, and the Pentagon doesn't want to reduce the necessary efficiency of units by watering them down with more inexperienced soldiers.
Administration critics are going to love this. Way back before the troops rushed into Iraq, generals and other planners warned that we were getting in over our heads. Based on all the above, it seems the realization is dawning that those warnings might have had some validity.
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http://www.tribstar.com/articles/2004/06/07/news/columnists/ncol03.txt

Return of The Draft?
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Utah has one of the highest draft registration rates of any state, partly because young men are automatically signed up when they get a driver's license. Utah has also just filled its local boards to adjudicate draft cases if needed. Draft talk is quiet for now.
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http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_154130716.html

Barry named to Selective Service Board
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Dr. Phillip O. Barry, President of Mesalands Community College, has been appointed to serve on the New Mexico Region 3 Selective Service Board which includes Quay and Union counties.
The certificate of appointment was presented to Dr. Barry by the Selective Service Commander for the State of New Mexico, Detachment Commander Gabriel Romero.
The Selective Service Board serves to determine eligibility of requests for deferment if and when the draft is re-implemented. “The Selective Service means more than the military draft,” said Commander Romero. He said it is federal law that male citizens of the United States, from the age of 18 through 27, register with the Selective Service. Those who do not register are denied state and federal employment and are automatically ineligible to receive any federal financial assistance such as Pell Grants for college education. The most severe penalty for not registering is incarceration.
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http://www.qcsunonline.com/engine.pl?station=quay&template=storyfull.html&id=1060


No truth to rumors? Can't believe a friggin thing *&co tell you!

[graham67]

4. Rumors, truth, whichever...

I felt compelled to get involved. My Mum and I both filled out the online request and got the applications in the mail today. She's considerably more "respectable" in the community than I am so I'm hoping at least one of us is seriously considered if/when we get to that point.

[PaDUer]

3. ditto....n/t

[Ernesto]

5. I grew up with a guy who had an aunt on the local draft board

As most of were getting drafted for Vietnam, Jim never had to worry. He was wide open about how his paper work had "gotton lost" @ the draft board office. Most of us just figured "good for him".