From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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.

--
Glenn M.


"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
news:hg52svgkt3tdlkmnjlelkrrabe6vna5m7o{at}4ax.com...
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:39:46 +0100, Phil Payne 
wrote:
>
> >> Trying to recruit new draft board member is in fact routine.
> >
> >Though it hasn't happened since 1981.
>
> Utter nonsense. Attrition from the boards occurs every year. Recruitment
on the
> local level is constant. What may be happening now and hasn't happened
since
> 1981 is that the recruitment needs have become critical if registering
with the
> local draft board is to continue in a viable manner.
> >
> >> But a resumption of actual drafting into the military requires action
by
> >> Congress and that is not going to happen, especially with an election
coming up.
> >> On the other hand, if Bush is re-elected, I wouldn't put it past him to
try it.
> >> But with opposition to the war growing every day, it is really far too
late to
> >> go for a draft. There might have been a chance right after 9/11, but
even then
> >> that would have run counter to Rumsfeld's New Military doctrine which
precludes
> >> a large standing army of citizen soldiers.
> >
> >Various voices have suggested a 100,000+ presence until 2006.  Can't be
> >done without the draft - the numbers just don't add up.
>
> Again, utter nonsense. They've got 135K there now. Reducing that by 35K
would
> allow more frequent rotations of units. That would relieve much of the
pressure
> that has been generated by prolonging reservist's tours of duty.
>
> If worse should somehow come to worst, there are plenty more reservists
who have
> yet to be called at all.  Maintaining 100K in Iraq doesn't even begin to
be a
> problem from a sheer numbers point of view. It may be a problem however
from a
> political point of view and it is only  that political view that concerns
the
> Bush people.
>
> Forget the draft. It is not going to happen both because it is not needed
and
> the political price to be paid would be far too high even if needed. There
is
> absolutely no spport for a resumption of the draft anywhere in the US,
among any
> group. Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff oppose it. Rumsfeld opposes it. It
woud
> sound the death knell of Bush's re-election chances. You are way out in
> fantasyland even suggesting that the draft might be resumed.

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5