The selective service was designed for a draft. It was created 1917, just before the end of WW I. There is no need for it.
The ground war is fought between Third World and the First World over terrorism, but, a ground war isn't going to occur between major powers. Iraq should never have happened, but, did and it wasn't because the selective service was at the ready.
“…To furnish manpower (click here) to the Defense Department during a national emergency, to manage alternative service for men classified as conscientious objectors, and to register, with only a few exceptions, all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants residing in the United States who are ages 18 through 25...”
There are about four hundred people working for the Selective Service. I am sure they can find work in other positions in the federal government.
February 6, 2016
By Binyamin Appelbaum
The ground war is fought between Third World and the First World over terrorism, but, a ground war isn't going to occur between major powers. Iraq should never have happened, but, did and it wasn't because the selective service was at the ready.
“…To furnish manpower (click here) to the Defense Department during a national emergency, to manage alternative service for men classified as conscientious objectors, and to register, with only a few exceptions, all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants residing in the United States who are ages 18 through 25...”
There are about four hundred people working for the Selective Service. I am sure they can find work in other positions in the federal government.
February 6, 2016
By Binyamin Appelbaum
Washington
— THE Defense Department’s decision to let women serve in every part of
the military has left just one major distinction between the roles of
men and women: Men are required to sign up for the draft when they turn
18. Women are not.
Selective
service registration is largely symbolic. The government has not
conscripted anyone since the early 1970s, and there are no plans to
revive the draft. But it is hard to resist the logic that women and men
should have the same responsibilities as well as the same rights.
Last
week, two top military officers said they favored universal
registration. “Every American who is physically qualified should
register for the draft,” Gen. Robert B. Neller, the Marine Corps
commandant, said at a Senate hearing.
But some economists have long preferred a different resolution: ending the registration system entirely....
