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Should Women have to sign up for Selective Services.

Should women sign up


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In middle of a fire fight, I protect my Marines regradless [sic] as of Gender. I see them as Marines and not as male or female during that moment.

Anyone who had any value as a real man would have a very strong instinct to do otherwise, to protect the women above all else. This is our natural instinct, role, and duty as men. May Laurence Tureaud have compassion toward you if you either were lacking this instinct, or if you have allowed it to be trained out of you.
 
I just can't see the American public accepting their wifes [sic] and daughters being signed up in case of a draft. I know I don't want it. If you want to send your wife or daughter off, be my guest, tell em to volunteer. Leave my family out of it.

Wives, daughters, sisters, nieces, aunts, and all other manner of female kin and acquaintances. When we, as a society, sink to the point where we are willing to send our women off as cannon fodder, then I think we need to acknowledge that we've reached the point where there is nothing left of our society that is worth fighting for.
 
I personally don't think Selective or the Draft is useless. I think personally see it as a civil duty for being a citizen. If man and women are equal they should be both drafted.

Men and women are not physically equal even if they are mentally equal. Hence having to downgrade physical requirements for females in the military, police and fire departments.
 
With more and more push to for women to do combat roles in the military should women have to sign up for selective services. For those that don't know Selective Services what male Americans have to sign up for when they turn 18 so they can be drafted if a draft is ever called up again. If you fail to sign up you can face jail time, be fined, and is denied aid for college.

Yes - with mandatory birth control and penalties for becoming pregnant at time of deployment.
 
What if both father and mother are drafted?



Then draft the children too. I mean WTH, pregnant women can operate mounted weapons systems, so they don't need exemptions either.
 
I voted no. I really had to think about it though.

Whereas, on one hand, I totally support the right of any woman to succeed and achieve anything she is capable of, on a level field, with her male counterparts, should that be her decision.

On the other hand, I think of all the bull**** reasons our young soldiers are sent to foreign soils to fight and die. We have to believe there is some basis of righteousness, (if there is ever any,) when one finds one's self on a battlefield defending and taking lives. Beyond the "Mom, hot dogs, apple-pie, and "freedom" schtick the the Dogs of War feed us to justify their agenda, for the cost of our blood, there HAS to be some reason to keep you going in a firefight. That reason is the, what I will call for the sake of this thread, "The Prime Directive."

Prime directive:

Fight to live. Fight to protect those around you who are fighting to keep you alive. Beyond all the politics and double-speak, the most important thing worth fighting for is the protection of our women and children.

I would never REQUIRE a woman to put herself in harm's way. She MUST be protected.

I think of my grand daughter. My niece. My wife and the daughters we never had.

Nope. No draft registry for our very hope for survival. They must be protected at all costs.

I know my feelings on this are out of step. I apologize in advance if my view offends anyone. That was not my intent. I'm just trying to keep it real in Captain America tradition on speaking my mind on what I feel. I ain't always right. But I am very comfortable in my own skin.
 
Absolutely. Equality goes both ways, if men have to do it, women do too.
 
I would never REQUIRE a woman to put herself in harm's way. She MUST be protected.

I understand and appreciate where the sentiment is coming from, but I know a few black belts (one of which is active military) who would find your impulse to defend women amusing.
 
I understand and appreciate where the sentiment is coming from, but I know a few black belts (one of which is active military) who would find your impulse to defend women amusing.

I know a couple as well. Even in my own family. LOL!
 
They use to have rules against taken every male in one family, for instance.

I realize regs can be created. I was just illustrating the mess being created for -no reason-.
 
Yes and No.

No, because this is a suicidal system for a society to have.
Yes, because the folly of actually drafting women and sending them to war will hopefully break the back of the insane ideas that feminism is injecting into society.

An issue apart from the draft that I would like to see happen is the formation of an Amazon Brigade. All the women who think that they are the equal to men get shifted into one unit and they fight together and don't imperil the lives of any men. This unit can then be compared against a mixed-gender force and against a male-only unit and we'll actually see how true it is that women are the equals of men.
 
Anyone who had any value as a real man would have a very strong instinct to do otherwise, to protect the women above all else. This is our natural instinct, role, and duty as men. May Laurence Tureaud have compassion toward you if you either were lacking this instinct, or if you have allowed it to be trained out of you.

LOL I guess in the combat zone I'm not a real man LOL
 
I had a P/EDD. Patrol Explosive Detector Dog.

I was making a joke about Bob's thing about forklifts. No forklift and no BS "protector" complex about women? He'll never forgive that.
 
I absolutely feel that women should have to meet selective service requirements, just like men, as a matter of principle. That said, in my experience, the vast majority of women in the military are absolutely worthless and take a disproportionate number of early advances in rank for all the work they do laying on their back.

There are many extremely smart and hard working military females I have met, both officer and enlisted, but if it were up to me women would still be doing jobs that aren't forward deployed, like the nurses. Before I was in the military I was completely the other way on this, but then I saw what happens when a carrier goes on deployment and, for one reason or the other, half of all the females are gone within a month (more work/watch and less sleep for the males who remain! Thank God for equal pay!).

The drop off is definitely less drastic among the officers, but since they don't do any of the work it's a moot point.
 
The USA has a military manned by volunteers.

No one has been drafted in the USA for quite a while.

That's true but men still have to sign up for selective service. Women ought to have to do the same thing, even if the chances of being drafted are basically zero.
 
What if both father and mother are drafted?
Update the rules so only one parent can be drafted except in extreme circumstances (like overwhelming space alien invasion or some ****).


Edit: Of course that's probably what it would take to cause a draft again, so it might be moot.
 
With more and more push to for women to do combat roles in the military should women have to sign up for selective services. For those that don't know Selective Services what male Americans have to sign up for when they turn 18 so they can be drafted if a draft is ever called up again. If you fail to sign up you can face jail time, be fined, and is denied aid for college.

It's a waste of money. I can't even imagine a time when we'd draft men, much less women. If we get in that situation, we could always initiate it. Otherwise, it's a waste of taxpayer money to maintain the information.
 
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