I didn't register for selective service, anyone else?

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Rookies. I didn't register for the Selective Service and I can still work for the Federal Government.

That's because we were born after social security started.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: looker001

Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp
Why wouldn't you? Isn't it the law?

Yes but i decided it wasn't worth it at the time.

You're either an idiot or a troll.

Troll. IIRC, he admitted in another thread that he didn't register. Now he starts a thread about it.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: looker001

Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp
Why wouldn't you? Isn't it the law?

Yes but i decided it wasn't worth it at the time.

For the love of God please ignore this troll.

 

[0roo0roo]

i prefer my tax monies not pay for the wages of a draft dodger

 

[jupiter57]

35 Years ago, I signed up for the Military.
Older brother got drafted, ran to Canada the next day. The day I turned 17, I enlisted!
Selective Service never even got my name AFAIK!!!

 

[Linflas]

Registered for the draft and received a draft card and lottery number. When I joined the Navy, after swearing us in they had us rip up our draft cards and flush them down the toilet which I thought was kind of odd.

 

[A5]

Originally posted by: Cabages
How old is too old to register?

Never heard of this, and obviously haven't registered.

You have to be 18-25. How have you not heard of it?

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: looker001

Originally posted by: sonambulo
The...30 seconds it takes to fill out the card?

Yes, but i didn't want to take a chances off being drafted

then IMO you dont deserve to live under the protection of our military. GTFO of my country.

 

[MedicBob]

LOL. Didn't register and now wants a government job? LMFNAO.

 

[habib89]

ironic.

 

[VICTORY2037]

My story is the opposite. I'm 36 years old and I never even heard about selective services until I was 30. I mean no one at all ever told me about it. Can anything be done for someone like me?

 

[eLiu]

I registered. Although due to my epilepsy, I highly doubt any armed service would ever take me :/

 

[OBLAMA2009]

i signed up for ss but if i had to do it today i would not. i also ignore all jury summons, there is no way im going to waste half a day doing that

 

[bignateyk]

I don't recall ever filling out this form. I didn't even know you had to do this. When did they send it? I work for a defense contractor with a TS clearance. Maybe my parents filled it out or something.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I went and registered just a day or two after I turned 18. People who can't bother to spend the time it takes to register for selective service should be denied federal jobs/benefits. It isn't that hard and it is probably even easier to do today compared to when I registered 22+ years ago.

I also think women should be required to register as well, but that's another thread.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I don't recall ever filling out this form. I didn't even know you had to do this. When did they send it? I work for a defense contractor with a TS clearance. Maybe my parents filled it out or something.

They don't send it or at least, they didn't. Back when I registered (1988), you went to the post office, asked for the form, and completed it and gave it right back to them.

 

[pcgeek11]

"A non-registrant may not be denied any benefit if he can "show by a preponderance of evidence" that his failure to register was not knowing and willful. Offer as much evidence supporting your case, and as much detail, as possible. "


good luck with that one.

But it was knowing and willful. I hope you get all that is coming to you. Thanks for your service to the country.

I know in the late 199o's my son filled it out online.No mail no stamp no problem 5-10 minutes. Damn you must be really lazy! :O

http://www.militarydraftregistration.com/?gclid=CN3O2Kj716YCFRJY2godcVjyJQ

 

[Whisper]

They don't send it or at least, they didn't. Back when I registered (1988), you went to the post office, asked for the form, and completed it and gave it right back to them.

I believe they started sending them to people's homes in more recent years. I know that in my case (late 90's), a little postcard-sized paper came to my house around the time of my 18th birthday; I simply filled in some information and mailed it back.

 

[pcgeek11]

My story is the opposite. I'm 36 years old and I never even heard about selective services until I was 30. I mean no one at all ever told me about it. Can anything be done for someone like me?

My god were you raised under a bucket?

 

[bignateyk]

My god were you raised under a bucket?

I never heard of it until this thread. He's got a point. I might have filled it out when I turned 18, I really have no recollection.

Well, I knew it existed, but I didn't know you had to fill out a form for it.

 

[pcgeek11]

35 Years ago, I signed up for the Military.
Older brother got drafted, ran to Canada the next day. The day I turned 17, I enlisted!
Selective Service never even got my name AFAIK!!!

When you enlist your obligation is taken care of.

 

[bignateyk]

When you enlist your obligation is taken care of.

If it's an obligation why the hell do they one time mail an easy to miss form for you to fill out?

Wouldn't it be easier to automatically enroll anyone with a social security number when they turn 18 and then send them a letter notifying them?

 

[Bignate603]

I think that I just filled out a card at the post office. It took 10 minutes total, including driving there (I was in the neighborhood anyways).

 

[pcgeek11]

Of course, had the buttheads (Carter and Congress) bothered to read the Constitution they would have recognized that the draft is illegal and found some lawful way to express their displeasure with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan rather than mandating draft registration. On the other hand, the tactic seems to have worked. After nine years, the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, largely in response to the relentless psychological beating imposed by the draft registration requirement in the U.S.

The selective service has been around since 1917 and except for a short period has been with us since.

he Selective Service Act of 1917 (40 Stat. 76) was passed by the 65th United States Congress on May 18, 1917 creating the Selective Service System.[6] The Act gave the President the power to conscript men for military service. All males aged 21 to 30 were required to register for military service for a service period of 12 months; the age limit was later raised in August 1918 to a maximum age of 45. The military draft was discontinued in 1920.
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the 76th United States Congress on September 16, 1940, establishing the first peacetime conscription in United States history.[7] It required all males between the ages of 18 to 65 to register for Selective Service. It originally conscripted all males aged 21 to 36 for a service period of 12 months, but was later increased to males aged 18 to 45 for a military service period of 18 months. Upon declaration of war, the service period was extended to last the duration of the war plus a six-month service in the Organized Reserves.
The Selective Service System created by the 1940 Act was terminated by the Act of March 31, 1947, and the Selective Service Act of 1948 created a new and separate system that is still in place today.

Amendment:

The registration requirement was suspended in April 1975. It was resumed again in 1980 by President Carter in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Registration continues today as a hedge against underestimating the number of servicemen needed in a future crisis.

 

[her209]

Look at the OP date... thread necro...