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

You also have to consider the fact that recruiters are hell bent just trying to find people who make weight and tape and can run their fat asses around a track for 8 laps...countries like Korea who have a required service also have it instilled in them since birth to work for a living-not seek government aid and be lazy for a living.

Spc 1 J W. -
I was drafted in the sixth week of my marriage in 1967, took a lot of heat for being "US" in an "RA" world. I earned positions among the top three men in my BCT Company and AIT Company, Infantry, in combined mental and physical tests at Fts. Ord and Polk, earning Expert Designation in Pistol and Mortar. I missed Expert in Rifle by one hit, something I will take with me to the grave.

So personally, I won't listen to a lot of 'noise' about the inherent inferiority of the draftee vs. the RA trooper. I gave as good as I got, and excelled.

Where I have to stand back one rank is in the lifetime dedication of those men I served with who chose to make the Army their career. I respect that as one who watches something and says, "There's no way I could do that." My hat is off to you soldiers that did that.

But I will not accept Second Place to any man based on US vs. RA, unless it is proven to me on the parade ground, the training ground, in the jungle or in the bar or in the parking lot after the bar.

Spc 1 J W. - I was a drill Sergeant and AIT Instructor in the Army when we had a draft. If you can’t handle volunteers perhaps you are the problem

I was a volunteer during the draft era.
My drill Sergeants and AIT drill Sergeants treated us all the same regardless of our status and there wasn’t any animosity between us trainees no pissing and moaning. One trainee screws up, we all paid for it.
Equal opportunity employment,
You gotta love it.

Amen Top!

I don’t see any problem with a ready reserve draft.
Top is correct as to not having any purpose in today’s society especially because of the way our society is turning into Woke society. Unfortunately, our military is having wokeness forced on them.
I wouldn’t wish for anyone to be forced into a draft with the direction that our military is now being forced into wokeness and CRT.
Very unfortunate and dangerous

Great post SGT.

Nice to get a female Soldier's perspective. Combat Arms MOS's have been approved for women in the Army. The entire range of MOS selection will be fully co-ed by the end of 2016 as far as I am tracking at the moment. I will look up exact dates that have been published and post them here for you SGT Johnson. 

SGT Johnson the last date I have been able to find for the final division to make combat arms MOS to be completely co-ed is 3rd quarter of 2016. 

It does seem out-of-place now, a back-door for conscripted service, if need be.  It's not truly a volunteer force with it in place, and it's not truly a volunteer force if people can't leave if it's not an organizational fit.  British and Canadian models allow for a voluntary termination of service if it doesn't work out, but there may be a wait, and during a time of war, that won't be possible.  They'd have to wait until (if) they get back, first.

Agreed. If we force people to serve are we still defending "freedom"?

I'm right there with you SGT Woods. I don't think it is a needed program anymore though. 

SFC Day I agree it isn't necessary but I can see how unfair it is to males. To be fair (the way "military fairness" is being shoved down our throats these days) the Army should also now allow males to wear ASU skirts and a hair bun. Latrines and barracks should be gender neutral and next they'll be requiring women to get prostate exams lol. Why does the military keep acting as if there aren't two different genders in the world?! Sorry, just my vent lol.

Thank you kindly SSG Pabon.

Is it really selflessness inasmuch as it is a disdain with how soldiers are being used as political pawns?  Research conducted by the Army has concluded that potential recruits are really considering the military as a job, not so much as a way of life anymore.  They want quality of life, they are looking for something "civilian" in nature, as far as workplace qualities are concerned, and this may be unrealistic.  However, if the military is unable to recruit because people are not willing to be treated like cattle, abused, and degraded for the sake of collectivism and acculturation, then they have a problem on their hands.  Younger generations are starting to see through the recruiting pamphlets and taking notice of the scores of vets who are getting out of the service incompatible with society, which varies according to their military occupation.  Our society is changing rapidly, and it really creates a contrast between what we were willing to put up with as far as a military lifestyle was concerned and what the younger generation is willing to accept.  However, in a time of war, we all need to ban together and operate as a single machine against a threat.  These are indeed complicated issues that I've been closely tracking for the past several years.  Recruiting research is some pretty interesting stuff when you see how the military resists social change and then, when the trend is nearly outdated, they adapt to bring numbers up.  Only by then, it's too late.

If we want every citizen to be a riflemen we should provide everyone a few weeks of training and send them home. Mandatory service will just create more entitlement because everyone will be a veteran.

I think it would be worth discussing, but first we'd have to discuss if the draft was a real possibility in todays political environment.

I understand that we aren't in a "draft environment" at the moment MSG. However, we males are still required by law to register. I am just curious as to whether we, as a whole, think that females should be required to as well. I'm curious whether opening combat arms MOS's to females changes the "popular" opinion on the matter. I agree that it is definitely worth discussing. I'm still not sure whether I think they should or not. Suppose I'm a little "on the fence" on the topic.

It's the law that women do not have to register...now that women are allowed on the front lines, the law can now be amended.

Good to know SSG.

You more than likely have been in over 4 years....so you do not need to sign up for selective service. Wanna change your MOS to 11B? Why oh why would you do that? I don't wish that on anyone. Lol. Jk do what you gotta do and good luck doing it!

Its almost laughable that you did not like that comment, saying that people should work for what they get instead of aving it given to them because of "their differences" is a bad thing? Smh,  sure. Ill take your thumbs down, put it in my pocket and go back to work so free loaders can continue to benefit from my hard work... Smh, thats crazy.

LOL SSG!

It's like the rally a bunch of dimwitted smelly hippy women had at the Cesspool called Evergreen College (WA State) to be able to go topless like the guys... They were all wearing see through shirts with no bras and as soon as the guys were leering and yanking their shirts off as they walked toward them, they all got shy! Careful what you wish for girls!