TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: barktopus
to: Glenn Meadows
from: Steve Ewing
date: 2003-11-25 21:02:48
subject: Re: Can the draft be far away?

From: Steve Ewing 

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:56:23 -0600, Glenn Meadows  wrote:

> Registration is national, not with local boards.  It's done at the post
> office.  Fill out the card, and mail it.  My son did that when he turned
> 18.
> There may be local boards in place that assimilate lists from the local
> schools, but I don't think they do much of anything at this point.

The purpose of the local boards is to determine deferments-- who stays home
due to hardships, etc., and who sucks it up.  Nothing to do with
registration; everything to do with an actual draft.  Interesting timing on
the attempt to fill openings (rather a low-key one, at that).

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270
@PATH: 379/45 1 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.