hide your draft age kids

[donsu]

http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/sss092203.html

Serve Your Community and the Nation
Become a Selective Service System Local Board Member

The Selective Service System wants to hear from men and women in the community who might be willing to serve as members of a local draft board.

Prospective Board Members must be citizens of the United States , at least 18 years old, and registered with the Selective Service (if male). Prospective Board Members may not be an employee of any law enforcement occupation, not be an active or retired member of the Armed Forces, and not have been convicted of any criminal offense.

Once identified as qualified candidates for appointment, prospective Board Members are recommended by the Governor and appointed by the Director of Selective Service, who acts on behalf of the President in making appointments. Each new member receives 12 hours of initial training after appointment, followed by 4 hours of annual training for as long as he or she remains in the position. They may serve as Board Members for up to 20 years, if desired.
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appointed by your Governor

[wtmusic]

1. What, enlistees aren't rushing in

to die or lose limbs in an unjustified, illegal war?

*sings* Oh, Canada!

[DemExpat]

2. My son is 19, and living overseas we have not gotten

around to signing him up for Selective Service, even though I've been warned that it is against the law NOT to......

Would hate to have him lose his American citizenship, but would hate more for him to be drafted into a hopeless, criminal war.
Over my dead body is how I feel.....

:-( :-( :-(

DemEx

[displacedtexan]

7. he must sign up, but...

if he signs up while out of the country and doesn't come back, he hasn't broken the law, and THEY can't force him to fight.

why do you think howard dean got sent to school in england when he was 17?

this was very common in the 60's. my father-in-law was an air force base commander in europe; he knew all of the loopholes used to keep young men out of vietnam.

[DemExpat]

15. Thanks, I need to look into this soon,

DemEx

[Occulus]

3. What is the draft age limit?

[Mandate My Ass]

5. info here

http://www.sss.gov/viet.htm

A draft held today would use a lottery to determine the order of call.
Before the lottery was implemented in the latter part of the Vietnam conflict, Local Boards called men classified 1-A, 18 1/2 through 25 years old, oldest first. This resulted in uncertainty for the potential draftees during the entire time they were within the draft-eligible age group. A draft held today would use a lottery system under which a man would spend only one year in first priority for the draft - either the calendar year he turned 20 or the year his deferment ended. Each year after that, he would be placed in a succeedingly lower priority group and his liability for the draft would lessen accordingly. In this way, he would be spared the uncertainty of waiting until his 26th birthday to be certain he would not be drafted.

[Occulus]

6. Are there any whispers of extending it past 26?

[Mandate My Ass]

8. Gawd I hope not

My son is 24. I figure he'll be 25 by the time this rolls around which means one year of stark-raving terror. There is no more "only son" exemption either. :cry:

[bluestateguy]

9. They don't need to

Birth rates shot up dramatically in 1982 and remained high until the early 1990's. There's an ample supply of cannon fodder. Interesting how the Vietnam War began in 1964, first year that the baby boomers turned 18. Hmmmm...

[mermaid]

11. Draft Age Limit

is 40. But after age 26, you no longer have to supply them with your new address when you move.

I am one of very few females who have a draft card. Yes, I'm registered with Selective Service...not that they'd ever take me...har har...

See, I'm a male-to-female transsexual. I signed up for the draft, per law, when I was 18.
When I had my sex and name legally changed, it was before I was 26, and I had to notify the draft of this change.

What a hoot, huh??

I may be the only female I know registered for Selective Service...

4. strange requirement

"...not be an active or retired member of the Armed Forces"

That's not the way it used to be, wonder why this change? Maybe because of this kind of thing?

During the Vietnam War, a friend of my father's was asked to serve on the San Jose, California draft board. He had lost a lung in a Japanese POW camp from TB and was a prominent lawyer in San Jose, so they figured he was the perfect candidate. He proceeded to advise every single person who walked in the door on their right to file as a conscientious objector.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. no conscientious objector. deferments this time..they will still have to

serve in the war zones but not carry gun...work in supply lines and or as medics...only 3 defwerments
1 asthma
2 have taken Ritalin after the age of 12
3 gay

my son has asthma but is boning up by watching The Chrisopher Lowell Show on HGTV just in case

13. Are you sure about this?

Serve in a war zone but not carry a gun is the Vietnam era 1-A-O.

Amish and Mennonites refuse to do even that, which is the Vietnam era 1-O status, where you serve in a mental hospital or such.

I think that constitutionally, this type of status has to be provided.

... how much the Constitution is being paid attention to is the question I guess.

[mermaid]

12. Don't Hide Your Draft Age Sons

Send 'em to the draft call in a dress!! LOL
THAT'LL get them out of the service!!

[tom_paine]

14. Underground Railroad Time!

[alfredo]

17. Sweden is pretty this time of year.

I am not sure that means the draft is ready to start. I signed up for the board just to ensure a Liberal slant. I did that a year or two before. No word back as yet.

Look for legislation. There was one in committee before 9-11.

[Scairp]

16. Girls too?