Selective Service Director Brodsky explains SPECIAL SKILLS DRAFT in .pdf!!

[Dems Will Win]

http://www.sss.gov/PDFs/NovDec2003-Register.pdf

They are gearing up the Special Skills DRAFT! No deferments allowed, men and women under the age of 45, Computer experts and LINGUISTS. Get ready to be inducted in 2005!

(Go to end of .PDF file)

[markus]

1. Hah! I'm 46. Nyaa, Nyaa.

Computer Specialists? Hell, I'm a computer specialist, I'm 46, and I want the opportunity to serve my country.

Of course, I epxect the same free-speech rights to write letters to the editor that the pro-Bush, pro-War guys get.

What's really troubling about this is the plan to start dragging in doctors and nurses. There's already a shortage in emergency services (police and fire) because so many of those guys are Guard/Reserves.

Now, we can shut down the emergency rooms, too!. Hey, wait, then all the people with no health insurance will die, and the counts of the uninsured go down.

[barbaraann]

3. They do want Americans to die from not having health care.

They want a smaller population. That's why Warren Buffett and Bill Gates focused on birth control for their "charitable" giving.

The elite can use only so many slaves.

[cryofan]

8. We wary oldsters are more trouble than desperate immigrants

They would rather have desparate 3rd world immigrants who cause less trouble and are younger and therefore less wary of the scamming govt and corporations, besides costing more in healthcare.

[barbaraann]

2. This is how they will fix the tech outsourcing problem.

Foreign nationals will get our programming jobs at slave wages and American programmers will be militarized.

But upper-class conscripts and those with BFEE connections will be able to avoid combat duty this way.

[leftchick]

4. the link does not work for me DWW!

:shrug:

[ithacan]

5. here are snips from that document:

In this uncertain climate, the SSS is working diligently to reexamine its statutory missions, reaffirming its relevancy, and making adjustments as necessary to meet the contemporary needs of the Nation. Several facts come to light. For example, while
manpower officials believe it is unlikely that a conventional draft of untrained men will be needed in the foreseeable future, there exist critical shortages of individuals with special skills in today’s AVF. SSS officials consulted with Defense planners to learn that medical personnel, computer specialists, and linguists are difficult to recruit and hard to retain.

There are also fears that the lengthy and repetitive activations of Guard and Reserve members will boost Reserve Component attrition rates. So a principal objective of PIP-2003 is to shift the Agency’s focus away from maintaining a high state of readiness to execute
a large draft of untrained manpower and toward preparing for a much smaller draft of trained personnel possessing critical skills needed
for military service in a national crisis. Examining all factors, the smaller, “special skills” draft is the conscription program more likely to be needed by today’s Armed Forces.

To accomplish the shift in focus, the Agency does not have to start from scratch. For the last 16 years, the SSS has continued its work on a congressionally-directed “structure” to allow for conscription of doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel.
The result is called the “Health Care Personnel Delivery System,”
or “HCPDS,” which is now nearly complete. It was patterned after
the Agency’s existing plan for a conventional draft of untrained men, but would differ in that it would require a mass registration of health care practitioners, ages 20 through 44, followed by selection
of individuals for induction to fulfill the numbers and skill requirements the military would need.

It is generally acknowledged that a “skill-specific” draft would be a smaller draft. Accordingly, through PIP-2003, the SSS is looking at ways to streamline its operations and make its processes more efficient, but will maintain an expansion capability to allow it, if
it becomes necessary, to conduct a conventional draft.

To assist the Agency in accomplishing PIP-2003, a contract was awarded to Alpine Magic, Inc., a small firm that specializes in change management and has professional expertise in applying
business process review techniques to government entities. The contractor conducted formal training for PIP-2003 participants, facilitated program review sessions, and documented outcomes.
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[Ernesto]

6. Thanx Dems Will Win

The draft seems to be your pet issue. I showed my fundy nut father n law some of your work that outs the current draft plans. Having 4 cannon fodder aged grandsons, the old coot is starting to realize how serious the situation in this country is........ Keep up the good work, Amigo!

[Dems Will Win]

9. Just getting starting, my friend

[trogdor]

7. They already have something like this in the Reserves.

A couple of years ago, I got a postcard in the mail urging me to update my civilian skills data. Fuck them. That's a "please screw me hard" list. They already know I have a BSCS. That's already more than enough.