<p>I’m with you, calmom. The govt. makes the rules, it can change the rules. A draft is nothing more or less than slavery. In four years my son will have to face the choice of registering or becoming a criminal. I’ll spend that time looking for ways to protect him.</p>
<p>Check out what Daniel Webster had to say about conscription. He puts today’s politicians to shame with his principles and command of the language.</p>
<p>And d-dad, I’m with you. The idea that our govt. can force anyone to join a group (in this case - the military) that is contrary to one’s wishes is frightening. The only exception that I would personally find acceptable is if the life of our nation was at stake…and only then if it were patently obvious that the country was going to be overthrown.</p>
<p>I don’t even buy that exception. Slavery is slavery. In that situation, there would likely be more than enough volunteers, or at least the government could spend enough to buy mercenaries.</p>
<p>“Two Army recruiters in Golden have been suspended from their jobs while military officials look into allegations the two men used improper tactics to get an Arvada high school student to sign up for duty.”</p>
<p>It seems that some recruiters are, indeed, doing whatever is possible…to meet their quotas.</p>
<p>Is there some way to find out if you have registered? What sort of info do you have to provide? We started FAFSA. but never completed it, so maybe he registered. He also renewed his Texad Driver’s license that might have required it.</p>
<p>U.S.Army recruiting short again in March
Goal missed by nearly a third in second straight shortfall</p>
<p>Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Posted: 7:05 PM EDT (2305 GMT)</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) – The Army fell almost one-third short of its recruiting goal in March, its second consecutive month of shortfall amid concerns that the Iraq war is discouraging young people from enlisting.</p>
<p>Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey had said recently that internal forecasts indicated the Army was likely to miss its monthly recruiting goals in March and April, although he and other Army officials have said they remain cautiously optimistic of reaching the full-year target of 80,000 recruits.</p>
<p>The Army has not missed its full-year target since 1999.
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<p>The Army Reserve did even worse in March than the regular Army. It recruited barely half the 1,600 soldiers it wanted for the month. It has not met a monthly goal since December 2004, and for the period from October 2004 through March it has met only 82 percent of its goal.</p>
<p>The regular Army, as of March 31, is at 89 percent of its full-year goal</p>