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Will Trump Start WWIII Will He Draft Doctors & Nurses First? (Original Post) mitty14u2 Sep 2017 OP
NK wouldn't be WWIII. Syria wouldn't be WWIII Weekend Warrior Sep 2017 #1
What do "doctors & nurses" have to do with it? left-of-center2012 Sep 2017 #2
You must be Super Healthy, I myself am old and have a Nurse as a daughter and law mitty14u2 Sep 2017 #5
You're sick and your daughter-in-law is a nurse? left-of-center2012 Sep 2017 #6
I'm too old and fat to be a soldier marylandblue Sep 2017 #3
My daughter just got her BSN and RN exboyfil Sep 2017 #4
No doctors or nurses needed... just janitors with mops. longship Sep 2017 #7
U.S. Has Contingency Plans for a Draft of Medical Workers mitty14u2 Oct 2017 #8
 

Weekend Warrior

(1,301 posts)
1. NK wouldn't be WWIII. Syria wouldn't be WWIII
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 04:02 PM
Sep 2017

I really wish it was understood that the war on terror and the authority given to the President of the united states to unilaterally act on concerns of terror do represent WWIII.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
6. You're sick and your daughter-in-law is a nurse?
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 04:54 PM
Sep 2017

That doesn't explain why Trump will draft doctors and nurses.


exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
4. My daughter just got her BSN and RN
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 04:30 PM
Sep 2017

and is in the process of getting a job. She actually has considered the military, but she needs experience before she can enter the Flight Nurse program (or other critical care billet).

longship

(40,416 posts)
7. No doctors or nurses needed... just janitors with mops.
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 05:53 PM
Sep 2017

There'll be nothing left but some kind of soup.

mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
8. U.S. Has Contingency Plans for a Draft of Medical Workers
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 05:26 PM
Oct 2017

On the one hand, the report said, the Selective Service System should establish contacts in advance with medical societies, hospitals, schools of medicine and nursing, managed care organizations, rural health care providers and the editors of medical journals and trade publications.

Richard S. Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, said Monday: "We have been routinely updating the entire plan for a health care draft. The plan is on the shelf and will remain there unless Congress and the president decide that it's needed and direct us to carry it out."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/politics/us-has-contingency-plans-for-a-draft-of-medical-workers.html

Pentagon Plans Draft Of Doctors And Nurses, Selective Service Wants Medics Ready
In Event Of Worst Case Crises

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is firming up a plan to draft thousands of doctors, nurses and other health-care specialists in the event of a worst-case crisis.

The Selective Service System is dusting off its plan for a "health care personnel delivery system," which has been on the shelf since Congress authorized it in 1987 to cope with military casualties from a large-scale biological or chemical attack.

http://www.rense.com/general39/draft.htm

These are old stats but will be new when needed, trump is a Draft Dodger as well as many others but it will not be as easy at the next World War!

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