Selective Service registration

Actually, it was the Carter administration that brought back draft registration in late 1980.

 

Yeah, I don't recall being too vocal about it as a trainee! As an instructor, however, I got to see how the really good ones do it, and realized that most of what I saw in my trainee days was actually pretty good.

 

Yep. July 2, 1980.

 

You can also change your address online, which is something that never occurred to me. Of course, the chances of the government wanting to draft a 40+ veteran are pretty slim, but you gotta comply with the law;

https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfAddressChange.aspx

 

So how does the ethics department feel about Baskin Robbins (and, I think others), which has a "birthday club" for small children, selling the names and birthdays of these children to Selective Service, so the government can cross check and find people who registered for free ice cream but not for the draft?

Seems to me B-R should at least disclose the fact that they sell the names, at the time one signs up.

 

I think it stinks, and I'm surprised there hasn't been an organized movement to sign-up imaginary people to send Selective Service chasing ghosts.

 

Yikes! I stand corrected!

 

Naw, just clarified. The difference is, in utile terms, meaningless.

Love your posts!

 

This is bad. Private businesses should not be surrogates for the government, absent transparent contracts. The telecos are a perfect example of this nonsense.

As for the SSS, it is stupid and irrelevant. Please don't try to convince me that the government doesn't already know exactly where each adult male is and lives. The SSS isn't about administering a potential draft, it's about political posturing. Now that it is in place, there will be no political incentive on anyone's part to kill it, even if it is wrong-headed. This is what keeps the VA hospital system alive, BTW.

 

Wow, Baskin & Robbins can really serve up a "Rocky-Road"

Sorry, but by now you folks know I can't resist.
Gavin

 

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