Posted on Oct 10, 2014
Should women be required to register with the Selective Service upon turning 18?
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Should women be required to register with the Selective Service upon turning 18?
Bonus: Why or why not?
Bonus: Why or why not?
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Women in the Military
Selective Service (the Draft)
Women in the Military Selective Service (the Draft)
Posted 11 y ago
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With the fight for equality in the military and the recent decision by the Army to open combat arms MOS's to women in the Army, being so much in the news and discussion, do you think that women of the required Selective Service age group should be made to register as their male counterparts are?
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Yes, women should be required to register for the Selective Service upon turning 18. If men and women want to be treated equally, they should both volunteer equally.
Why not, we are in a world of gender equality and women should share their right serve and what service to do it in.
Women should be required to register for the draft and serve, if women are going to be given the same opportunities in the military as men, without exception (as long as they can meet the qualifications, which would not include gender).
If women are restricted in what they can and cannot do in the military (by regulations/law pertaining to gender, not physical ability), then I would say no; their service should be voluntary.
If women are restricted in what they can and cannot do in the military (by regulations/law pertaining to gender, not physical ability), then I would say no; their service should be voluntary.
If they want to be equal in the military and in general then they should be required to register.
It's discrimination to only require males to register.
It's discrimination to only require males to register.
SSgt Nicole Biscoe
Exactly!! I agree 100%!
LCpl James Robertson
Please take a visit to your local VA facility, they can bearly treat the current veterans, its just hard to see women as a head cases for life, competing for equality being in Infantry does make you equal, look at the number of Armed Services Personnel, suffering from medical injuries and filing claims for injuries of war. Google, Benjamin Krause website of all the problems veterans are having getting treatment and pay from the VA. It least these women should go into combat with their eyes open, knowing that treatment for wounds and other services are at a minimum at the VA.
SSG Willis Baker
But that's not being equal. Boys who enlist have no idea what they will encounter during their careers. Women will do the same as the men after service. Register with the VA and hope and pray their paperwork gets processed.
MSG John Wirts
Let's really go for fair is fair! If men have to register for selective service, and they do! Women who want to be SOOO equal should have to register for selective service too! Now let's ask a question, If a woman is standing in front of her window in the nude and a man stares at her from the street, who has committed a crime and what is thew crime! Answer the man is a peeping tom under current law. If a man stands if front of his window nude and a woman looks at him from the sidewalk, who has committed a crime and what is it? The MAN is guilty of indecent exposure, under current law. IF WOMEN TRULY WANT EQUALITY, then this must change, either in the first case the woman is guilty of indecent exposure,o oor in the second case the woman is a peeping tomacena. Equal is equal, and fair is fair!
I say yes. At this point it would be symbolic. Since, we would never have the time to gear up like we did for WWII, I don't believe the draft will ever be instituted again.
From a purely equality standpoint it should happen though. A women can get a Pell Grant or a Federal Student Loan without being registered and a man cannot.
From a purely equality standpoint it should happen though. A women can get a Pell Grant or a Federal Student Loan without being registered and a man cannot.
SFC Kenneth Hunnell
Never say never, they thought the Great War WW1 was the war to end all wars, look at how many there has been since then. I believe it will take a major event to enact it, But, I believe it will come again
The American Society is starting to come to terms with women serving in the Military as a whole. Many women today are just as able to perform many duties contributed to a full range of jobs within the military including some of those within combat specialties. Where we will have difficulty is many male personnel not letting go of over protective nature of women over men.
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