{"id":114557,"date":"2021-06-14T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114557"},"modified":"2021-06-14T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:49:06","slug":"bring-back-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114557","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back The Draft!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Army recruiting poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is almost my favorite subject, although making good gravy sometimes exceeds it.<\/p>\n

It is about whether or not women should be required to register with Selective Service and put up with being drafted if we need to have warm bodies and walking two-leggers in a wartime setting.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/opinions\/2021\/06\/09\/changing-military-draft-its-not-really-about-women.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessary that I go over the history of the hundreds of thousands of women who volunteered for military service, starting back in World War I with the Yeomanettes (Navy) and Marinette (USMC), and continuing later on with WAVES, WACs, WAAFs, WAFs, and WMCs during World War II, Korea and Vietnam. All of them, including me and other women, were volunteers. At the time that Selective Service and the draft were being protested by boys under 18 (and older) who didn\u2019t want to \u201cgo to Vietnam and get their SH and IT all blown up\u201d, the military offered real-world skills training.<\/p>\n

In actuality, the number of troops who ended up in Vietnam was considerably lower than the numbers drafted, and frankly, many who got their draft notices either joined something besides the Army or did what my brother did: go to basic, serve for one year on AD, and then spend the remaining time in the Reserves as weekend warriors. By that time, the Vietnam war was winding down and was mostly done, anyway.<\/p>\n

From the article: The Supreme Court has\u00a0declined to hear arguments<\/a>\u00a0in the case of\u00a0National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System<\/a>. In doing so, it acceded to the\u00a0Biden administration’s wishes<\/a>\u00a0that it not address the question of whether women should join the millions of young men required to register each year with the Selective Service \u2013 the federal agency responsible for the draft. It will now be up to Congress to decide what, if anything, to do with the\u00a0law governing registration<\/a>\u00a0and the draft.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0scholars of<\/a>\u00a0the draft<\/a>, we have seen Congress grappling with the question of selective service for years.\u00a0A bill<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0include women in the draft<\/a>\u00a0was introduced in 2020 after a\u00a0national commission studied the issue<\/a>\u00a0for four years. Congress is also considering two other proposals\u00a0to dismantle<\/a>\u00a0the entire<\/a>\u00a0Selective Service System.<\/p>\n

The future of the draft, and registration for it, depends on two questions. One is about the role of women, but the bigger one is about the role of the registration itself.<\/p>\n

Registration and the draft are not the same thing, although they are related. Registration is the process by which people identify themselves to the government as potentially eligible to be drafted to serve in the military.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., Congress and the president must\u00a0pass a law authorizing a draft<\/a>, at which point the government agency known as the\u00a0Selective Service System<\/a>\u00a0oversees the administrative process of conscription. There has not been a draft in the U.S.\u00a0since 1973<\/a>, when Congress allowed the existing draft authorization, conscripting men into service in the Vietnam War, to expire.<\/p>\n

Two years later<\/a>, President Gerald Ford\u00a0suspended<\/a>\u00a0men’s responsibility to register for the draft. But in 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter\u00a0reversed Ford’s position<\/a>, reinstating registration \u2013 though not the draft itself. Since then, all male permanent residents of the United States, both citizen and noncitizen, between the ages of 18 and 26, have been required to register and\u00a0update their information<\/a>\u00a0with the Selective Service every time they move. \u00a0– article<\/p>\n

I\u2019m completely in favor of requiring that women register with Selective Service. There are several reasons: it removes the whole \u201cprivileged brat\u201d thing; many, many women are volunteering already; and it might just sort out those so-called gender issues if the guy who claims to be a girl realizes he can\u2019t get out of being drafted. ?<\/p>\n

The downside of this is, as indicated in the article toward the end, the fact that at present, there is no structure in place for handling a new draft system, calling people to active duty who had registered with Selective Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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