Lawmakers push for end to draft registration in US

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Lawmakers push for end to draft registration in US

AP foreign, Monday February 25 2013

RICHARD LARDNER

Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Two lawmakers are waging a little-noticed campaign to abolish the Selective Service System, the independent federal agency that manages draft registration.

They say the millions of dollars the agency spends each year preparing for the possibility of a military draft is a waste of money.

Reps. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., say the Pentagon has no interest in returning to conscription due to the success of the all-volunteer force.

The Selective Service has a budget of $24 million and a full-time staff of 130. It maintains a database of about 17 million potential male draftees. In the event of a draft, the agency would mobilize as many as 11,000 volunteers to serve on local draft boards that would decide if exemptions or deferments to military service were warranted.

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[Autumn]

1. Who needs the draft. They can hire kids with joy sticks to handle

any war. Push a button here and boom goes a building wherever they think an enemy might be. Job done, and take a break and run down to Taco Bell.

[Tempest]

2. "due to the success of the all-volunteer force"

So they made up the deficiency in numbers we were told about not too long ago and failed to tell anyone about it?