Should women of military age now be required to register for the Selective Service Program (Draft)?

I think so.

I think that what the military did was total political in letting women serve in combat units. In 2000 I was NCOIC in ft Polk, with Abbott 140, soldiers from 4 different post to train for Bosnia. The training wss not scale to high, let say on a scale from 1-10, I would say it was about 4, doing searches on personal and vehicles. We had to go through a 2 weeks training in field environment and when that time of the month came, I couldn't believe the problems that aroused with some of the females. There was only about 10, but you would think that I had 100 plus. I was also station in several different posts, and conducting PT, was no joke, when females was in formation. I also wss an instructor at PLDC, the old real school and BNCOC, most of the females couldn't even handle a three mile run, foot matches, obstacle course within the required time, so I know that most of them won't handle the combat environment. It would become more troublesome negative that positive.

I do not, there are way too many young people out of shape; many of our younger women are not culturally acclimated to become warriors. We as a society must alter our mindsets and mentor our young women to think and develop a warrior mindset. We would have to do away with the Barby doll mentality; this cultural acclimation would take generations to accomplish.

I am afraid many of our younger people would be getting set up to fail.

Respectfully,

Frank Ambriz
SFC U.S. ARMY - ARMOR RETIRED

I think all kids should have to acknowledge that equal freedom and equal rights go with equal responsibility. Then answers to questions like this will be obvious.

This is where my Wife(also a veteran) and I disagree. She says "absolutely yes", I, on the other hand, believe that if the draft is called for, it will be for fighting troops. Very few females, and drafted males will be up to the requirements for combat arms. Those males that do not make the grade can fill the needed support positions as they have in other eras of the draft. But, my biggest issue is that you never put those that can bare children in harms way on purpose and to date, I know of no men that can accomplish this. It's one thing to allow females to volunteer for combat roles, I have no problem for those that meet the standards doing so, but draw the line at requiring it. So no, I don't support women being required to register for the draft. And I believe the registration is important for a couple of reasons.

Yes, if men have to then women should too.

Sure why not