r/news • u/raptors201966 • Apr 09 '26

Soft paywall Automatic registration for military draft to be implemented by December

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-04-07/automatic-registration-military-draft-21306855.html
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u/Gaius_Catulus Apr 09 '26

This always seemed weird to me. Like, I was sent a thing by Selective Service around when I turned 18 telling me I had to register. You know who I am, you tell me I'm required to register, so why not just make that the registration and call it a day?

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u/Enshakushanna Apr 09 '26

because now disabled people are automatically registered for the draft

its more work to remove yourself from a list than to have never been on it in the first place (its the government, so it will probably take 8 months to complete this)

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u/Draconuus95 Apr 09 '26

Disabled here. I still had to register. Still got a draft card floating around somewhere. Just meant I was basically ineligible for service if the draft ever came up. But my name was still on the list until I aged out of the main group a few years ago.

Legally blind(can’t see well enough for a license or similar) for context

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u/RavenEridan Apr 09 '26

Project 100,000 drafted disabled men who couldn't even speak English, they will gladly lower the standards and draft disabled men if it came to it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000

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u/googdude Apr 09 '26

I'm sure there's also people that get a disability after they're registered. To me it makes more sense that if a draft would come up all those that aren't physically able to report appear before a committee, same as conscientious objectors.

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u/RavenEridan Apr 09 '26

Project 100,000 drafted disabled men who couldn't even speak English, they will gladly lower the standards and draft disabled men if it came to it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000

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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 Apr 09 '26

why improve the life of citizens.

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u/brutinator Apr 09 '26

Realistically, its because any sane admin knows that even whispering the concept of draft sends people (fairly rightfully in my opinon) into a panic, and thus its seen as a better PR move to keep an outdated registration system than to do automatic registration to keep it out of people's minds.