Selective Service activates and orders all personnel to report for duty. Reserve Force Officers, along with selected military retirees, begin to open Area Offices to accept registrant claims. Local, District Appeal, and National Board members are notified to report for refresher training. A publicly attended, nationally televised and live-streamed lottery is conducted.
The lottery, a random drawing of birthdays and numbers, establishes the order in which individuals receive orders to report for induction. The first to receive induction orders are those whose 20 th birthday falls during the year of the lottery. If required, additional lotteries are conducted for those 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 19, and finally Learn more here.
Induction notices are sent and registrants may now make claims if desired for a postponement, deferment or exemption. At MEPS, registrants are given a physical, mental, and moral evaluation to determine whether they are fit for military service.
Once notified of the results of the evaluation, a registrant will either be inducted into military service or sent home. Local and Appeal Boards begin to process registrant claims for classification as conscientious objectors, dependency hardships, ministerial and ministerial student deferments, and appeals. According to current Department of Defense DoD requirements, Selective Service must deliver the first inductees to the military within days from the onset of a crisis and the law being updated to authorize a draft.
Men are not classified now. Classification is the process of determining who is available for military service and who is deferred or exempted. He brushed aside some of the peer-to-peer type fighting as resulting in quick sea battles or ones that would involve coalitions of nations against a larger foe. Supporters such as retired Army Col. Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, told the audience at William and Mary that he could quickly envision a large-scale conflict happening tomorrow.
He then described war game simulations in which a U. Navy aircraft carrier sails through the Taiwan Strait, triggering a fusillade of Chinese missiles, sinking the vessel. Wilkerson then asked, what options does an American president have when there are 5, sailors at the bottom of the South China Sea? Either back off and negotiate, he said. Or go to war. Todd South has written about crime, courts, government and the military for multiple publications since and was named a Pulitzer finalist for a co-written project on witness intimidation.
Todd is a Marine veteran of the Iraq War. Your Military. By Todd South. Jul 25, Senior Drill Instructor Sgt. Jonathan M. Owens welcomes young men and women from across the country to Parris Island, South Carolina. But it could be done. About Todd South. More In Your Military. Marine-turned-kingpin pleads guilty in drug trafficking case An indictment said Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr.
Mark Milley. Fate of Marine battalion commander connected to deadly AAV sinking to be determined in December A board of inquiry will be held for Lt. Keith Brenize "to show cause for retention in the Marine Corps. With the end of the Vietnam War in , however, the government no longer needed a massive supply of troops, and the draft was discontinued.
More than 30 countries, including Russia, Israel, and Mexico, maintain a draft. Plus, they say, a draft would allow the government to quickly bring in more troops if the U. But some opponents say that forcing people to join the military would violate their rights. The current model of staffing our military using an all-volunteer force is unfair and expensive, and it should be eliminated.
The system is fundamentally unfair because it relies mostly on low-income Americans, forcing them to shoulder the burdens of risk and sacrifice. Relying exclusively on volunteers essentially allows people who have more money—and therefore more options—to get out of serving their country. Bringing back the draft would allow the military to quickly pull in additional troops when necessary. In the past 15 years, the U. During that time, the military has been forced to deploy many of the same troops again and again.
Reinstating the draft would allow more people to experience the honor of serving their country. Reinstating the draft would also be less expensive for the nation. The government currently spends a lot of money trying to get people to enlist—and to remain in the military once their initial commitment is complete. To help solve these problems, the U. Doing so would be more fair, more efficient, and less expensive for the nation. It would also allow more upper-class Americans to experience the honor of serving their country.
A fundamental question we must ask ourselves when thinking about whether to bring back the military draft is who owns our bodies, our time, and our lives. If the answer is not ourselves, then we are essentially slaves. Draft supporters argue that young people owe a debt of service to their country. I reject this notion. Involuntary servitude does not promote patriotism. Today, young men must register for the draft on their 18th birthday and remain in a database throughout their 20s, just in case the government needs to reinstate the draft.
There are proposals in Congress to force young women to do the same. In my opinion, making people join the military against their will is a violation of their rights. The U. This means the government can seize ownership of the lives of young people and force them into the military against their will, violating our most basic right. I find this unacceptable.
Our current all-volunteer force is more highly trained and more professional. The idea that a military full of conscripts would make us safer has been rejected by military experts.
How effective would a fighting force be were it made up of individuals who had no interest in being there? They know that our current all-volunteer force is more highly trained and professional than draftees would be. Were the U. The problem is that the U. Maintaining that global presence is increasingly costly and requires a larger military than we need for our own defense.
A non-interventionist foreign policy would eliminate any need for a military draft and would allow us to better defend our own country. It would also set a shining example of personal liberty for the rest of the world.
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