What are the valid reasons for not being drafted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how many people are panicking over this. Why would the US start a draft?

Do people seriously think the US would launch a "Normandy Invasion" in Iran? That would be insane.

With this demented maniac in office, nothing is off the table

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All males have to sign up for selective service in case there is a draft. It doesn’t matter if a male who is 18 is actually medically able to serve or not. My son has Type 1 diabetes. While there is no chance he could enroll in the military even if he wanted to serve because he wouldn’t pass the health screening, he still had to register in case there is ever a draft.

The only males who don’t have to register are those who are incarcerated or institutionalized continuously from age 18 to 26.

[b]I am really surprised not everyone realizes this

Dp here. I doubt you posted anything the op didn’t already know. Everyone realizes that registering is not the same as qualifying for a draft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Medicated ADHD is ineligible to enlist. Both my kids (male and female) have been medicated since elementary/ middle school continuously. So, they’re out.

Hate to break it to you but my medicated ADHD kid just passed the DODMERB physical 2 weeks ago by the Army's cadet command.
We thought he would never pass but they took him. And this is for ROTC training as an officer. The standards for enlisted soldiers are always more lax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. There are actual active duty and reserve soldiers who *actually* have to worry about this.

With all due respect, they chose it. I certainly appreciate their service, but that’s not the same as kids being drafted who have no interest in it snd don’t even agree with the mission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently being gay or trans

Poor Sgt. Klinger; he was 50 years too early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. There are actual active duty and reserve soldiers who *actually* have to worry about this.

With all due respect, they chose it. I certainly appreciate their service, but that’s not the same as kids being drafted who have no interest in it snd don’t even agree with the mission.

Can we stop with the "they chose it" when we all know that it's not true for the most part? People dont enlist in the military to be cannon fodder for funsies. They do so for the most part because they are poor and have few alternative options. We all take part in create the economic conditions that pushes these KIDS into our military, then tell ourselves it's okay to send them to fight in pointless wars because "they chose it" but don't you dare come for my precious snowflake! It's frankly disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently being gay or trans

Poor Sgt. Klinger; he was 50 years too early.

Corporal Klinger.

[Anonymous]

Fortunate son and bone spurs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how many people are panicking over this. Why would the US start a draft?

Do people seriously think the US would launch a "Normandy Invasion" in Iran? That would be insane.

True, but a high percentage of young people are medically ineligible. So I could foresee a time when physically capable people have to be drafted in order to get enough people.
Fortunately (or not) wars now involve a lot of tech and less manpower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. There are actual active duty and reserve soldiers who *actually* have to worry about this.

With all due respect, they chose it. I certainly appreciate their service, but that’s not the same as kids being drafted who have no interest in it snd don’t even agree with the mission.

Can we stop with the "they chose it" when we all know that it's not true for the most part? People dont enlist in the military to be cannon fodder for funsies. They do so for the most part because they are poor and have few alternative options. We all take part in create the economic conditions that pushes these KIDS into our military, then tell ourselves it's okay to send them to fight in pointless wars because "they chose it" but don't you dare come for my precious snowflake! It's frankly disgusting.

+ 1000. Honestly drafting or mandatory service is more equitable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Medicated ADHD is ineligible to enlist. Both my kids (male and female) have been medicated since elementary/ middle school continuously. So, they’re out.

Mine too, plus my son has only one kidney which also makes him ineligible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. There are actual active duty and reserve soldiers who *actually* have to worry about this.

With all due respect, they chose it. I certainly appreciate their service, but that’s not the same as kids being drafted who have no interest in it snd don’t even agree with the mission.

Can we stop with the "they chose it" when we all know that it's not true for the most part? People dont enlist in the military to be cannon fodder for funsies. They do so for the most part because they are poor and have few alternative options. We all take part in create the economic conditions that pushes these KIDS into our military, then tell ourselves it's okay to send them to fight in pointless wars because "they chose it" but don't you dare come for my precious snowflake! It's frankly disgusting.

War vet who joined for college money after growing up in poverty. The lie that people tell themselves that kids *want* to go to war is, for the most part, a self serving delusion.

If you're not active duty or reserve, you're unlikely to be affected by this war in any material way. Stop cosplaying a person with problems. You don't have these problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. There are actual active duty and reserve soldiers who *actually* have to worry about this.

With all due respect, they chose it. I certainly appreciate their service, but that’s not the same as kids being drafted who have no interest in it snd don’t even agree with the mission.

Can we stop with the "they chose it" when we all know that it's not true for the most part? People dont enlist in the military to be cannon fodder for funsies. They do so for the most part because they are poor and have few alternative options. We all take part in create the economic conditions that pushes these KIDS into our military, then tell ourselves it's okay to send them to fight in pointless wars because "they chose it" but don't you dare come for my precious snowflake! It's frankly disgusting.

How many military members do you actually know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is asthma, anxiety, depression or heart condition reason enough to be exempted from being drafted to war?

How about conscientious objector of wars?

What are the other reasons to be exempted?

Bone spurs immediately comes to mind!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently being gay or trans

Poor Sgt. Klinger; he was 50 years too early.

Klinger was neither gay nor trans. He dressed in women's clothes so he could get out of the Army on a Section 8

"You're a tribute to man's endurance; a monument to hope in size 12 pumps. I hope you do get out someday; there would be a battalion of men in hoopskirts right behind you."

(~Sidney Freedman, to Klinger, in War of Nerves)

Sidney Freeman was the psychiatrist in M.A.S.H. who didn't fall for Corporal Klinger's crossdressing.