Interesting how all of a sudden they want to get rid of Selective Service requirements…
Two lawmakers are waging a little-noticed campaign to abolish the Selective Service System, the independent federal agency that manages draft registration.
They say the millions of dollars the agency spends each year preparing for the possibility of a military draft is a waste of money.
Reps. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., say the Pentagon has no interest in returning to conscription due to the success of the all-volunteer force.
The Selective Service has a budget of $24 million and a full-time staff of 130. It maintains a database of about 17 million potential male draftees. In the event of a draft, the agency would mobilize as many as 11,000 volunteers to serve on local draft boards that would decide if exemptions or deferments to military service were warranted.
Full article HERE.
Can’t help but wonder if this is so they don’t have to register women, now that they are eligible for combat…
Just askin…
h/t Les
Sooner or later it’s going to have to be all or nothing. Sex-neutral draft or no draft.
The Legislature’s selective amnesia … sigh. The last time the draft was abolished, enlistments dropped to a dangerous low, IIRC.
Since the Left’s ultimate has always seemed to be a reduction in force, this is as good a way as any to accomplish that.
Here’s something to think about. According to the last Census, there are 31,209,548 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S. And it’s about 50/50 Male/Female.
So if they have a Draft, that’s the Raw Pool of Candidates. Lets be really Generous and say 20% of them are unfit for Military Duty due to Health, Intelligence, Prison records, etc. That leaves about 24-25 Million people available for Duty, half of which are Female.
But they CAN’T Draft that many, because we do not have the Manufacturing Capability to build the Boot Camps, Cloth them, Feed them, Train them, etc. Hell, we don’t have enough AMMO to Teach them, let alone issue a Rifle for Combat. Hell, we don’t have enough Drill Sergeants to Square them away!
No, if we ever have to get into another “Big War,” we need a whole hell of lot of Infrastructure and Support in place before we can even think about telling Betty Sue “Greetings!”
And a Commander-in-Chief with Balls and Brains would be nice, also.
Interesting my congresscritter is one of the sponsors. One of the few vets in Congress. Nothing on his page about it.
Just curious about their thinking (or what they call thinking) – Obama was for the sequestration before he was against it and now he’s saying that we can’t afford to lose a single soldier, police officer, border patrol officer, yada yada yada. So how can we afford to do away with a structure that makes sure we have access to a large database of people eligible for service?
Suzanne- Excellent point, and I ‘think’ that is what they are afraid of…
Rev- Yep, damn them…
Les/PH- Rev has a point, and I personally think it’s all about hiding the fact that women should now be elegible for the draft and can you imagine the uproar when all of a sudden their precious ‘snowflake’ has to go register…
WSF- I thought so too…
@Les – “And a Commander-in-Chief with Balls and Brains would be nice, also.”
Amen.
Funny how ‘equality’ isn’t what common sense would say it is…
Tim- Common sense IS lacking…
“Common Sense” isn’t so common anymore!
It is to save women from the draft.
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