Re: Selective Service question....

RainCityWoman · ‎06-16-2015

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@bear wrote:
The military draft ended over 40 years ago. Military service has been voluntary since 1973. No medical information has to be sent in with your son's selective service registration.

I don't have brothers or sons, so I'm really out of the loop here .... is it required that young men HAVE to register for a non-existent draft?

Yes. And possibly young women now too.

Nancy Drew · ‎03-11-2010

@RainCityWoman wrote:
@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@bear wrote:
The military draft ended over 40 years ago. Military service has been voluntary since 1973. No medical information has to be sent in with your son's selective service registration.

I don't have brothers or sons, so I'm really out of the loop here .... is it required that young men HAVE to register for a non-existent draft?
Yes. And possibly young women now too.

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women do not register. Even if their was a Draft that would be huge news if women had to register.

Wrong is still wrong just because you benefited from it.

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@SahmIam wrote:
His doctor just returned my call and said with his med list, no way they'll take him (which is what we thought but wanted to do the right thing).

Thank you everyone!

Believe me, the military does not want anyone who is sick in any way. My son wanted to sign up for the Army National Guard after 9/11, he had a scar on his back where he had a mole removed. The military would not take him without a signed document from his doctor that the mole she removed was not cancer. When he was in the military they let guys go in his group who were having back problems and that was during the Iraq war.

Snowpuppy · ‎03-09-2010

young men between 18 & 25 must register. You cannot yet have reached your 26th birthday.

Do not submit medical evidence. In fact, if there were a draft, THEIR doctors do the classification of fit to serve, not yours.

RainCityWoman · ‎06-16-2015

@Jackaranda wrote:
@RainCityWoman wrote:
@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@bear wrote:
The military draft ended over 40 years ago. Military service has been voluntary since 1973. No medical information has to be sent in with your son's selective service registration.

I don't have brothers or sons, so I'm really out of the loop here .... is it required that young men HAVE to register for a non-existent draft?
Yes. And possibly young women now too.
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women do not register. Even if their was a Draft that would be huge news if women had to register.

I thought I heard on the news that that would be changing.

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

@RainCityWoman wrote:
@Jackaranda wrote:
@RainCityWoman wrote:
@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@bear wrote:
The military draft ended over 40 years ago. Military service has been voluntary since 1973. No medical information has to be sent in with your son's selective service registration.

I don't have brothers or sons, so I'm really out of the loop here .... is it required that young men HAVE to register for a non-existent draft?
Yes. And possibly young women now too.
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women do not register. Even if their was a Draft that would be huge news if women had to register.
I thought I heard on the news that that would be changing.