From USA Today:
"Should Women Be Required To Register For The Draft?"
Three years ago, Congress created a commission to help it answer a pair of questions: Is the Selective Service System, which requires 18-year-old men to register for a potential military draft, working? If so, should it be expanded to include women? The panel, more than halfway through its work, is asking even bigger questions. Should draft registration be mandatory, voluntary or eliminated? Should it target people with specific technical, medical or language skills, in addition to combat capability? And should compulsory service be limited to the military, or should it include other forms of community service? The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service will deliver an interim report Wednesday that hints at the breadth of its charge but gives few clues as to how it's going to resolve the most controversial issues. "Personally, I don’t think we will remain with the status quo," commission Chairman Joe Heck said. "But where we end up on the spectrum is yet to be determined." Heck, a retired brigadier general and Republican former congressman from Nevada, called the question of whether women should be required to register for the Selective Service on turning 18 "visceral." "When we pose this question to people, it’s not like they say, 'Oh, let me stop and think for a minute.' They have an answer," he said. "Either it's yes, women should have to register just on the basis of equality, or no, women should not have to register because they have a different role in American society." In 2017, the Pentagon argued in favor of keeping the Selective Service system – and expanding it to include women. "It would appear imprudent to exclude approximately 50 percent of the population – the female half – from availability for the draft in the case of a national emergency," the Pentagon said in the report, which was released under the Freedom of Information Act. The military said it's committed to an all-volunteer force and doesn't have plans to implement a draft. But expanding the draft to include women would help by doubling the number of recruiting leads, officials argued, and foster a sense of gender inclusion in the national defense.
^ I've said it before: I do not think that the majority of countries (including the US) need to have Conscription or The Draft anymore. With that said as long as the Selective Service is still around I believe all men and women should be required to registered for it. I would like to see some sort of National Service (whether it's being in the Military or working in different areas for the Federal Government) for Americans 18-25 years old (men and women) since I think it will help teach young Americans to do something besides take selfies and post everything and anything. ^
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