← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Enkidu
Thread ID: 12369 | Posts: 13 | Started: 2004-02-17
2004-02-17 03:06 | User Profile
From somewhere in southeast Denver, Colorado,
Well, I registered on my 18th birthday, back in 1963, but it looks like I may be drafted again. I just filled out and mailed in my application to re-new my driverââ¬â¢s license, and the following was a part of the form:
ââ¬ÅBy submitting this application, I am consenting to being registered with Selective Service if so required by Federal law.ââ¬Â
I hope they at least let me go back in my old rate, CTR2. It not, I better start getting in shape. Iââ¬â¢ll be 59 in May. if they make me repeat boot camp, itââ¬â¢s going to be tough.
Enkidu
2004-02-17 04:38 | User Profile
You're ahead of me. I've yet to register the first time.
2004-02-17 10:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Enkidu] ...I hope they at least let me go back in my old rate, CTR2. It not, I better start getting in shape. Iââ¬â¢ll be 59 in May. if they make me repeat boot camp, itââ¬â¢s going to be tough.
Enkidu[/QUOTE]
Lots of women in communications now. I got told that by a gal who just got out (or not quite). The girls take it up because they meet a better class of guy than they'd meet if they took up commisary or boatswain's mate -- hey, did they EVER get women in on that donkey-work?
Anyway you might actually like. Hell they might like you.
I'm 54 come May 3 and I could do boot camp again IF they let me bring my prescribed painkillers from the idiotic number of industrial accidents I've starred in. One is a German-made pseudo-narcotic called Ultram. Makes you feel like you can take on anything. German technology, yup.
2004-02-17 12:19 | User Profile
I'm just curious, Enkidu: What made you decide to register for the draft now? The US military has been taken over by ZOG -- you don't want to aid the neocon war machine, do you? I'm confused...
2004-02-17 15:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]I'm just curious, Enkidu: What made you decide to register for the draft now? The US military has been taken over by ZOG -- you don't want to aid the neocon war machine, do you? I'm confused...[/QUOTE]
Actually it's simple, and you can be sure I'm not going to be dragged back into the military, in which I served, from 1968 to 1972.
My drivers license expires in May. Here in Denver, they now allow drivers to re-new by mail, every other time. They have recently added the ââ¬ÅBy submitting this application, I am consenting to being registered with Selective Service if so required by Federal law,ââ¬Â to the re-newal form. You can't get a drivers license now without this afirmation. This is new, it has only recently been added to the form.
Enkidu
2004-02-17 15:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Enkidu]Actually it's simple, and you can be sure I'm not going to be dragged back into the military, in which I served, from 1968 to 1972. [/QUOTE]
Or maybe not. Iââ¬â¢m sure when the draft starts up, the Selective Service will be processed out of Bengalore, India. I might just find myself back on the tarmac. Or the same Hindu that processes me in might screw up and make me an officer --- I was an E5 when I got out, maybe I could go back as an O5. Thatââ¬â¢s a Commander in The Navy, a Lt. Colonel in The Army. Hey! Iââ¬â¢m going.
ââ¬ÅLather was thirty years old today, They took away all of his toys. His mother sent newspaper clippings to him, About his old friends who`d stopped being boys. There was Harwitz E. Green, just turned thirty-three, His leather chair waits at the bank. And Sargent Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old, Commanding his very own tank.ââ¬Â
Enkidu
2004-02-17 16:00 | User Profile
Ah, I see. I guess I missed the dry humor in your post and thought you really wanted your old job back for some reason. I feel a bit dumb now... :bag:
2004-02-17 16:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Enkidu]Or maybe not. Iââ¬â¢m sure when the draft starts up, the Selective Service will be processed out of Bengalore, India. I might just find myself back on the tarmac. Or the same Hindu that processes me in might screw up and make me an officer --- I was an E5 when I got out, maybe I could go back as an O5. Thatââ¬â¢s a Commander in The Navy, a Lt. Colonel in The Army. Hey! Iââ¬â¢m going.[/QUOTE]:lol:
2004-02-17 22:54 | User Profile
I'd thought boot camp would be much easier for you older guys this time around since the standards have been lowered so that females could join. You might could pass it without the painkillers.
2004-02-18 01:26 | User Profile
I haven't signed up for selective service again. Instead, I volunteered for the local draftboard. Twice. I didn't hear anything back the first time, so I did it again to help Rummy out. I'd love to insure we have "equality" here. It would be fun to turn down someone like the loathsome Josh Chafetz, son of Zev Chafetz of the N.Y. Daily News fame and head of "Students for War" for an exemption. He is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, heroically defending American in Britain against "liberals and Democrats" and other supporters of "terrorism."
2004-02-18 16:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius][COLOR=Red]I haven't signed up for selective service again. Instead, I volunteered for the local draftboard. Twice. I didn't hear anything back the first time, so I did it again to help Rummy out. I'd love to insure we have "equality" here. It would be fun to turn down someone like the loathsome Josh Chafetz, son of Zev Chafetz of the N.Y. Daily News fame and head of "Students for War" for an exemption. He is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, heroically defending American in Britain against "liberals and Democrats" and other supporters of "terrorism.[/COLOR]"[/QUOTE]Now that I have stopped laughing and started to think I can post. What a splendid idea!!! I would love to be in a position to send these little tough-talking bastards into battle. Better yet I would like to strap Zev Chafets, cowardly draft-dodger, and Richard Perle on the front end of a tank, or, perhaps even better, march them through mine fields.
Quite seriously, how do they select people to be on draftboards? Does anyone know?
2004-02-18 17:57 | User Profile
Edward,
[url]https://www4.sss.gov/localboardmembers/bminquiry.asp[/url]
2004-02-18 22:29 | User Profile
[QUOTE=EDUMAKATEDMOFO]Edward, [url]https://www4.sss.gov/localboardmembers/bminquiry.asp[/url][/QUOTE]I will be practicing my "good citizen" look, which should be easy with my manifest integrity. I will then check to see if the offspring of the loud-mouthed patriots and the chosenites have registered. At last, something to live for.