NEW SF Chron article on Special Skills DRAFT! Be Prepared, programmers!

'Special skills draft' on drawing board
Computer experts, foreign language specialists lead list of military's needs


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/13/MNG905K1BC1.DTL

Washington -- The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages.

The Selective Service System has begun the process of creating the procedures and policies to conduct such a targeted draft in case military officials ask Congress to authorize it and the lawmakers agree to such a request.

Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, said planning for a possible draft of linguists and computer experts had begun last fall after Pentagon personnel officials said the military needed more people with skills in those areas.

"Talking to the manpower folks at the Department of Defense and others, what came up was that nobody foresees a need for a large conventional draft such as we had in Vietnam," Flahavan said. "But they thought that if we have any kind of a draft, it will probably be a special skills draft."

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BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

try it now

is one way to get full employment. Anyone remember soviet communism?

Oh, the irony.

I couldn't find your story there.

Never mind. I see it now.

I guess I really didn't need to keep my house. Thanks Rummy!

You'll never get rich fixin' a glitch,

You're In the Army, NOW!

Won't this have the effect of making more government employees? Why not outsource the work to India?

I sent this to all Computer experts I know ...

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

I printed up a homemade version ....

Thanks for keeping this issue in the forefront
Your dedication to this issue is appreciated :hi:

I'll get in shape, learn how to kill with my bare hands and then sit in front of a computer screen for several months.

odds are i'll never get shot at, i'll never kill anyone and it will look good on my resume when i run for president circa 2028.

sure my house will probably get foreclosed on so my wife will have to move in with her mom and probably divorce me, but i don't like to think about others. </sarcasm>

My girlfriend's a computer whiz, and she's of draft age. They can't draft women, can they?

if the need is there ,,, ya know !

They're already planning on drafting women in the medical profession, so it wouldn't surprise me if they draft women in the computer & linguist fields.

Women under the age of 45 with the skills specified by the DoD must register at the local PO within 30 days of the DRAFT being reauthorized (right now it looks like April 1, 2005 will be the day Bush goes to the Congress for that). NO DEFERMENTS except in case of essential community need. Just like the Medical DRAFT (HCPDS). So have her switch jobs to an essential one at the local police department or something like that.

This is all to code millions of lines for Star Wars.

I DID NOT RAISE MY SONS TO DO YOUR DIRTYWORK, YOU CHICKENSHIT CHICKENHAWK, AND I WILL BE DAMNED IF YOU CAN HAVE THEM FOR THAT!!!!!!!

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Good for you!!

in that superpower status. Unbelievable the ignorance of the right-wing. They probably still haven't figured out that China got a nuclear jump-start during the Reagan-Bush Bush-wotisname era.

Enrollments which are already down 30% in these programs will plummet. There goes the budget.