Should women be required to register with the Selective Service upon turning 18?

So, what do you do with people who just don't work out in the military? You see it even now in the volunteer military, and the result is often a discharge (dishonorable, other-than-honorable, etc). If you're requiring them to be in for three years, what do you do with those who are actively detrimental to morale, order and discipline?

We get rid of them...like we are supposed to do now. And they can have a dishonorable or other than honorable discharge to deal with for the rest of their lives.

As much as I can see a tongue in cheek nature to your post, without a well-populated war to house people (which would also allow their families to remain in place instead of having to occupy housing near a major military base) we would need to spend what I would assume to be trillions in infrastructure to establish new bases, expand existing ones, train enough DS's to handle the influx of 18 year olds, pay them, and give them equipment.

Basically I see you applying a socialist answer to an answerless problem.

And spending trillions for that is different from the trillions we spend now in what way? That's not socialism. That's reacquainting the American population with the understanding that freedom requires sacrifice. We have quite enough going on to support a draft.

Even though I am not one myself, I liked your very descriptive term of Full Metal Bitches.

I think, I getting to old, I'm for equal rights but torn between women serving in combat roles as Infantry in the USMC, but if the Marine Corps does some of the same things when I were in Infantry, just in training alone they tortured you, They would take a rubber raft far out in the Pacific Ocean, without your telling you where they were going and start cussing you out, the NCO In Charge, would dive into the Ocean come up from the bottom and flip the raft over, I must have sunk 2000 ft. before I could think to pull the cord on my floating device. After come back to shore, we were threatening if we told anyone what just happened, you would repeat this exercise over and over again. Some thing as simple as Rifle Range almost ended my career, when a D.I. over tightened my rifle sling in a sitting position, and seated me for and hour in that position, when I removed the sling, no muscles, no strength, just a dangling arm I had to support. Sendoff to Casualty Platoon, where bad things happened I have never seen in my life-time. Recruits with heart trouble falling on the floor with no medical attention having seizures, and being told to die, its to many people in the world anyway. Not counting the beatings and assaults in the squad bay, the ammonia closets where they locked you in the closet, until you passed out for like of oxygen, and then dragged you out of the closets to get your air back. Being forced to lie to Congress about these abuses, and other tortures. I still think of women as nurturing, most of this training I'm talking about would mess up your head for life, after things of this nature, how do you become a woman again. Obviously you want be who you were before you went in. At least I not. For years after I got out, killing were so instilled in me, everywhere I walked, I'm making plans to kill in my head, nervous cause I didn't know nothing, but fighting and killing.

There are men who can't handle that as well, so clearly this is not a purely gender-specific issue. You're making sweeping generalizations here about the nature of women. If someone has the desire, mental toughness, and physical ability, he or she should be permitted to pursue his or her choice of career. Messing up one's head for life really depends on the resiliency of the specific person, regardless of gender.

Because during past periods of drafting, we had plenty of females volunteer for the Armed Services. I guess that in the future, if enough did not volunteer, we would draft them.