Government recruiting for local draft boards

[Judi Lynn]

November 9, 2003

Government recruiting for local draft boards
Draft Board recruitment
A call for people to sign up to serve on local draft boards is raising questions about the draft itself.

The appeal for volunteers to serve on local draft boards first showed up on a Defense Department website and was picked up yesterday by the Guardian newspaper in London.

While nobody is talking about re-instituting the draft for young people of draft age, the idea of being called to military service seems like something out of the history books.

The notice recruiting for local draft boards appeared on the Defense Department's 'Defend America' website. It calls for citizens over the age of 18, with no criminal record, to volunteer to serve the nation by joining the boards which decide which individuals would be tapped for military service and which would be exempted. (snip/...)

http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=1515402

CBS radio news just read this story at 3:00 am, E.S.T., and I checked the internet to see if I could find a story. I've not seen it here yet, hope it's not a dupe.

[jamesinca]

1. The Guardian story was posted several days ago, on Wed.

I took this bit of information with me to the Dean Meet-up.

[VolcanoJen]

2. Dupe... locking

The news of the draft board recruiting efforts was first reported in this LBN thread on Wednesday, November 5:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=201069

There's a very good, and more current, LBN thread about this important issue and story here; let's keep the discussion going:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=207205

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
DU Moderator