AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Draft momentum continues.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
"The Selective Service has been updating its contingency plans for a draft of doctors, nurses and other health care workers in case of a national emergency that overwhelmed the military's medical corps," reported the October 20 New York Times. A report filed last summer by a private contractor hired by the Selective Service "described how such a draft might work, how to secure compliance and how to mold public opinion and communicate with health care professionals, whose lives could be disrupted."
The report described the need to make discreet contacts with medical societies, medical schools, hospitals, and similar institutions in advance of a "special skills" draft involving health care professionals. Discretion is necessary, the report emphasized, because "overtures from Selective Service to the medical community will be seen as precursors to a draft."
Our continuing occupation of Iraq, and projected military ventures abroad, will mean additional demands on an already badly overstretched military. "We're already ...
- SELECTIVE SERVICE EYES WOMEN'S DRAFT THE PROPOSAL WOULD ALSO REQUIRE...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Rosenberg, Eric May 1, 2004 700+ words
...The chief of the Selective Service System has proposed...led invasion of Iraq, also seeks to extend...up from 25. The Selective Service System plan, obtained...today's needs, the Selective Service System's structure...
- Registering for selective service shouldn't be an easy process.(Neighbor)(Chalk...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) July 7, 2004 700+ words
...their choice. The Selective Service Web site is filled...and on the Internet, Selective Service is not getting ready...contingency, such as Iraq. Additionally, the...draft. Therefore, Selective Service continues to refine...
- SELECTIVE SERVICE STUDIED FAST DRAFT FOR CRISES.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) February 17, 2007 700+ words
...opposition from within the Selective Service System. William Chatfield, the Selective Service System director, ordered...1993. Since then, the Selective Service System has had its current...military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush...
- Selective service: Decatur maintains high Army recruiting rate in face of...
- Newspaper article from: Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) June 20, 2006 700+ words
...who is married with three children, said he wants to go to Iraq, to contribute to the cause. "You just hear so much about...the terrorist attacks, followed by a decline after the war in Iraq dragged on longer than expected. The nationwide goal of the...
- Selective Service
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
Selective Service During major military conflicts...been in place since 1973, the Selective Service exists as an independent agency...the U.S. Senate directs the Selective Service System. Congress passed the first...
- UNCLE SAM WANTS MORE OF YOU TO REGISTER AREA HAS A LOW RATE FOR SIGNING UP WITH...
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot Tennant, Diane March 19, 1998 700+ words
...also has a low registration rate for Selective Service, leaving many young men in danger...jobs. This irony is not lost on the Selective Service, which is blitzing Hampton Roads...Scragg, regional director for Selective Service. ``The national Selective Service...
- SELECTIVE SERVICE SEEKS BOARD MEMBERS.(Neighbors East)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) February 26, 2004 700+ words
...Kulczyk is area office manager with the Selective Service. Have you ever wondered what you can do...to serve as a local board member of the Selective Service. The Selective Service system maintains nearly 2,000 local boards...
- America still needs Selective Service.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times September 4, 1999 700+ words
...agency should be closed down ("Selective Service should be sidelined," Letters...significantly in the past decade - the Selective Service System ensures that a ready reserve...during a crisis. In effect, the Selective Service acts as a unique "insurance policy...
