Registering for selective service isn't being drafted, it's adding you name to the registry of those eligible to be drafted, if needed.
US males aged 18-25 are compelled to register, under penalty. You must also update the agency in event you move. Despite a recent US SCOTUS ruling that only requiring males to register is unconstitutional, the agency stands by the law as written. See "STATEMENT ON RECENT COURT CASES PERTAINING TO WOMEN AND SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION" at [1]
Selective service also has nothing to do with Jury duty - thats normally driven by voter registration as it tends to be one the most accurate records of who lives in a jurisdiction.
I've been of voting age for more than half my life now, and I've yet to be summoned. :shrug:
Thanks for clarifying this issue for me. I got the letter in 2010 or 2011, and I no longer remember the specifics of what was being asked of me beyond it being some kind of registration for involving the military and the sender being Selective Service.
Sorry, I was unclear -- what I was trying to say is, if you're registered for selective service couldn't that result in the various military sending you "hey, do you want to join the <insert service here>"?
I wasn't a permanent resident during the age window for selective service, so I can't speak to any of the selective service rules, just my unceasing jury summons :D
In my experience, no. I was recruited as I was graduating high school, but after I declined the Navy after finding out the recruiter was lying to me, never heard from any branch again. (I was being recruited for ROTC) I can't say if my experience is typical or not, but I don't think the selective service is allowed to act as a directory for spamming for recruits. It's there as the registry for the lottery that the draft becomes, if enacted.
Ok, what is it the recruiter lie about (given this is a theme, and I've never been actively recruited, I would pity the military service that wanted someone with my vision and coordination :) )
Basically, the recruiter promised I'd being doing work in my destined field (was studying electrical engineering) during summers off from school. When I was on campus for a scholarship interview, the officer there in charge of the ROTC program chuckled and told me straight faced something along the lines of "no, you'll be swabbing decks until you graduate."
So, I opted to go the self paid route. Figured after that I couldn't trust anything.
After scholarships and a little financial help from my parents, I graduated in 2003 with about 15k in loans on a 120k priced 4-year education with a dual BSEE and BSCPE.
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Draft isn’t asking, so maybe it’s periodic “hey would you like to be in the army?”
Registering for selective service isn't being drafted, it's adding you name to the registry of those eligible to be drafted, if needed.
US males aged 18-25 are compelled to register, under penalty. You must also update the agency in event you move. Despite a recent US SCOTUS ruling that only requiring males to register is unconstitutional, the agency stands by the law as written. See "STATEMENT ON RECENT COURT CASES PERTAINING TO WOMEN AND SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION" at [1]
Selective service also has nothing to do with Jury duty - thats normally driven by voter registration as it tends to be one the most accurate records of who lives in a jurisdiction.
I've been of voting age for more than half my life now, and I've yet to be summoned. :shrug:
[1] https://www.sss.gov/
Thanks for clarifying this issue for me. I got the letter in 2010 or 2011, and I no longer remember the specifics of what was being asked of me beyond it being some kind of registration for involving the military and the sender being Selective Service.
Sorry, I was unclear -- what I was trying to say is, if you're registered for selective service couldn't that result in the various military sending you "hey, do you want to join the <insert service here>"?
I wasn't a permanent resident during the age window for selective service, so I can't speak to any of the selective service rules, just my unceasing jury summons :D
In my experience, no. I was recruited as I was graduating high school, but after I declined the Navy after finding out the recruiter was lying to me, never heard from any branch again. (I was being recruited for ROTC) I can't say if my experience is typical or not, but I don't think the selective service is allowed to act as a directory for spamming for recruits. It's there as the registry for the lottery that the draft becomes, if enacted.
Ok, what is it the recruiter lie about (given this is a theme, and I've never been actively recruited, I would pity the military service that wanted someone with my vision and coordination :) )
Basically, the recruiter promised I'd being doing work in my destined field (was studying electrical engineering) during summers off from school. When I was on campus for a scholarship interview, the officer there in charge of the ROTC program chuckled and told me straight faced something along the lines of "no, you'll be swabbing decks until you graduate."
So, I opted to go the self paid route. Figured after that I couldn't trust anything.
After scholarships and a little financial help from my parents, I graduated in 2003 with about 15k in loans on a 120k priced 4-year education with a dual BSEE and BSCPE.
Foreigners join the US army all the time, often with the hope of gaining US citizenship
That may change given the current administration claiming that Defending Freedom and America doesn't make you worthy of being American.