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A clerk working with the state’s database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 Wait so.. The US is drafting?
by Mandatum 12y ago
A clerk working with the state’s database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997
Wait so.. The US is drafting?
- maxerickson 12y agoYou receive a notice when you become eligible (old enough) for the draft.
- yock 12y agoThe notice was for the recipients to register, which all American men must do when they turn 18.
- kawsper 12y agoWomen isn't drafted?
- frozenport 12y agoNo, as women weren't deployed to direct combat missions when the laws were looked over in the 1980s. [1] [1]http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/453/57 http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/453/57
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- pokpokpok 12y ago"must" is pretty loose, if you don't fill the slip out nothing happens
- yock 12y agoNothing usually happens. Officially, you can be prosecuted and sent to jail.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoRight. It's essentially a ceremonial piece of paperwork, dating from a more militarized time (USSR etc) when un-computerized governments didn't have many other ways to keep track of its citizens. Nowadays, no human being really cares if you register anymore, because there's no draft, and if there ever needed to be, they could require registration again and track down the delinquents using computers. So it'll probably be required forever. Wikipedia says the agency gets $24 million a year.
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- Turing_Machine 12y agoThere are some consequences for not registering (can't get federal government jobs, can't get federal student aid) so it's not quite true that no one cares.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoWell, yes, the bureaucracy always cares. But I said human beings. :)
- zerohp 12y agoThey really do care if you register. If you don't register by 26 and decide to go to college later, you'll lose a significant amount of financial aid offered to independent students. There's no way to register after 26, so you're stuck.