Selective Service.

[bob88]

Some tell me it's absolutely mandatory to join, and I will be prosecuted if I dont.

Others tell me it's NOT mandatory, and will just prevent me from getting a job in the gov't, financial aid, and things like that.

So, is it against the law to not sign?

 

[Ace of Flames]

I guess you're talking about the military?

Its only mandatory if they institute a draft. They won't. But if they did, you'd be safe from it if you're going to college.

I wouldn't really worry about it.

 

[Last Man Standing]

No Someone is lying to you/

If you get federal grants for education you may have to register your name and address.

Are soldiers trying to enlist you?

And yes - there will be a draft soon

 

[Giovanni Casanova]

It is required that you register for Selective Service, but the way that law is enforced is the methods you mention; failure to get a government job, financial aid, etc. All men between the age of 18 and 25 are required to register.

The Selective Service Act is not enforced beyond that as far as I know, though that is subject to change.

If you're concerned about the draft, not registering with the selective service is unlikely to help you -- if you're of age, they'll find you one way or the other.

But not registering can make your life as a young guy pretty difficult as there are several important programs (college aid in particular) that you will be ineligible for if you fail to register.

 

[RedPill]

Unless the general public is genuinely in strong support of a massive military campaign that would require a draft, I honestly don't believe that the US government has the ability to enforce a draft. Combine the fact that jails are overcrowded with the fact that public resources have been stretched thin from a lack of restrained government spending. Along with this, consider how quickly information (correct or not) spreads today, and I think an attempted draft would throw this country into a state of civil unrest it hasn't seen in many generations.

The cat's out of the bag with regard to the realities of war. Now that we're in the Information Age, there's no going back to the era where the citizenry was naïve to those realities. The government can no longer depend on people to stand behind it without a credible and universally accepted threat, since the general population understands that it's virtually impossible to physically or financially enforce an imposed draft order.

In other words, you have nothing to worry about with the SSA.

 

[Ken785]

thats bullsh!t...the war is not that big to enlist a draft. i doubt there will be another dfaft...at least not in this war. wheres the proof?

 

[Derek Flint]

There is not going to be a draft.

Must be another election coming up if those scare tactics are coming up again.

And the way the military operates nowadays, a draft would not be logical or productive.

 

[Chaotixxx]

And yes - there will be a draft soon

Watching too much loose change? lol