Military Draft Coming? House Passes Measure To Automatically Register Men For Selective Service

To start with, i do think that a mandatory draft is needed but does not have to be full military unless a live war is underway.  All women need to be also included as well.

The first semester is drill and fitness training along with basic coursework.  Those unable to meet the standard should then repeat the whole process.  This will maximize the delivered fitness tranche as that surely matters.

The further semesters can focus on tool using skill development including extensive field usage and all that.  folks. need to know they can work on a construction site safely and for several hours.  Basic weapons training will be fitted in along with enough firing practice to provide real proficiency..

My take home is that you can be all done in well under two years and be a clearly fit and useful citizen top to bottom.  And an ideal recruit for a long term military contract readily trained up.

who does not want to do this when eighteen?

Military Draft Coming? House Passes Measure To Automatically Register Men For Selective Service

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BY TYLER DURDEN

SATURDAY, JUN 15, 2024 - 09:15 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/military-draft-coming-house-passes-measure-automatically-register-men-selective-service

The House of Representatives on Friday approved its version of the annual defense policy bill, effectively clearing the $883.7 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to move forward in a 217-199 vote which largely fell along party lines. Only three Republicans opposed it.

A number of 'controversial' amendments are part of it, setting up a further fight with Democrats as it moves forward, including a measure empowering the National Guard to crack down on the southern border.

But among the most interesting aspects to the bill for Fiscal Year 2025 is an amendment to the NDAA which automatically registers all draft-age male U.S. residents with the Selective Service System.

This means that all able-bodied males in the country age 18-26 could potentially be drafted in the scenario of a future war declaration by Congress. The selection would be based on information from Federal databases.

While there has been a Selective Service program in effect for decades, it has long previously only been voluntary, but this new amendment will make registration automatic. The merely 'voluntary' system had been in effect since 1980 - but critics have said that leaving it up for young men to decide for themselves whether to register has resulted in a weak and ineffective system with not enough numbers.

According to more background for this new Congressional push:

The automatic draft registration proposal was instigated by the Selective Service System (SSS) as part of its annual budget request to Congress, introduced by Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), “wholeheartedly” endorsed by HASC Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), and approved by voice vote of the full committee without audible opposition. The text of Rep. Houlahan’s proposal can be read here. Her office’s press release on the proposal can be read here.

Rep. Houlahan had been one of the leading advocates of proposals in previous years to expand draft registration to women as well as men. Her latest proposal for automatic registration of men only for a military draft indicates that she is more deeply committed to militarization than to any purported feminism.

There's been a rising number of military papers and reports calling for the reinstatement of a more robust draft system of late, especially in relation to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

For example, last year the US Army War College’s academic journal included a highly disturbing essay on what lessons the US military should take away from the continuing war in Ukraine.

By far the most concerning and most relevant section of that War College essay for the average American citizen is a subsection entitled “Casualties, Replacements, and Reconstitutions” which directly states, “Large-scale combat operations troop requirements may well require a reconceptualization of the 1970s and 1980s volunteer force and a move toward partial conscription.”