Assuming there is another draft?

Question

Can I be drafted?

I registered at 18 for the draft, I'm 23 years old now.

I have a few adult felony convictions stemming from the same incident when I was 19.

Felonies.
Michigan
Malicious Destruction of tombs and memorials.
Attempted Malicious destruction of a car.

Misdeanmnors: Retail fraud(stealing from store) in Grand Rapids Michigan.
Arrested for shoplifting in Colorado and never showed up for court.

Plus a few juvenile misdemeanors.

I haven't been arrested since 2005 and have lived a law abiding life since then and I reside in NYC.

To you ask I answer:

I was a dumb 19 year old kid and I recognize it was wrong I served my time for it I payed my debt to society.

Answer 1

Larry R stated the issue very well.

My short version is....Anyone registered can be called to the board. Selection would then begin. Illegal Alien males are also required to register. I doubt any do, but if they did they could be called up and rejected.

In regards to taking advise in this forum. Asker Beware. Last week the same girl asked 2 different questions about fraudulent Enlistment. She had not mentioned her husband and needed a Security Clearance for her MOS. Under the UCMJ this is very serious. A 13 year old boy is jumping in as if he knows something.

Look at folks profiles. The other answers they have given and questions they have asked. It is easy to make a BS profile. Hiding your answers and questions is a good tell they are full of Bravo Sierra.

SSG US Army 73-82

Answer 2

i'm 17 years old, and able resembling yours. besides the certainty that I (probably) will stay interior the U.S. all my lifestyles, I oppose any sort of military draft. i'm making plans to bypass to college this coming fall, and am involved in although if or no longer college scholars would be excused from the draft to boot. As for shifting to a various u . s . a ., i'm uncertain what the regulations say. besides the undeniable fact that, i believe they could allow you to go in another u . s . a . presented you haven't any longer yet been drafted. If the timing is undesirable, and you're drafted basically till now you progression, i won't be able to help yet ponder whether they could limit the circulate and tension you to serve interior the army. besides the certainty that i do no longer accept as true with this, i'm afraid that's what the government will do. It has executed worse till now, and could gain this returned. i do no longer think the draft would be reinstated, even with the shown fact that. i'm at present discovering this for a speech classification, and it sort of feels the draft is unquestionably no longer reinstated till we've an entire exchange of Congress, by fact at present basically representative Rangel from N.Y. helps a draft. i does not problem too lots if I have been you.

Answer 3

The answer is yes you can be drafted if the draft is reinstated. And so is every healthy male from 18 to 35 (I believe that was the cut off, not 100% sure).

Everyone makes mistakes growing up, some just more serious than others. It's good to see that you have started to change your life around. Keep it up and good luck.

Answer 4

Sound like you still owe the State of Colorado some time and/or money. No doubt a warrant in that state exists for you and if your were to enter military service, you would be held for those authorities.

Answer 5

When they do a draft lottery it is based on birth dates. They'll select a date and everyone with that birth date gets drafted. Since you're already 23 you'll be safe, they'd go for a younger age, usually 19.

Answer 6

Hey jail bird, two years does not make a law abiding life. Get back to me when you have 10 years of an exempalary life.

As to your question; only when a draft is enacted will we know what kind of misfits they will allow in. I hope things don't that dire.

Answer 7

Good to see you have held yourself accountable. I know many adults who can't do that. If the draft starts again you can get drafted since you are under 35.

Good luck with your decisions.

Answer 8

yes. anyone can be drafted. when times are tough, governments have drafted children and old men.

you would probably be high on the list of people to be drafted. the people that usually escape the draft escape because they are elites (rich, enrolled in a university, politically connected, managers at corporations). if you are married and children to take care of, that's another way to avoid it.

anyway, you don't seem to fall into any of those. but, i wouldn't worry about it. the current war is very unpopular and the party that institutes the draft would suffer tremendously in elections.

Answer 9

First of all, Don't listen to the people here. There is a reason Aristotelian only as 8% best answers, he doesn't know what he is talking about. The Army recently did a study of recruiting and found that only 27% of youth between the ages of 17 and 25 met current Army standards. The rest are either to stupid, to fat, didn't finish High School, have convictions (like you), or got involved with drugs... either illegal drugs or perscription drugs. (You have to be off ritilin for 2 years before the Army will consider you.) Most felons simply are not ever allowed in the Military, simply because... well let me put it this way, when you are in the Army you are carrying lots of expensive equipment and you routinely turn your back on men who are holding automatic weapons. Most people don't feel comfortable doing that with convicted fellons, sorry.

Your convictions also pose to other problems, one you are probably ineligible for an sort of security clearance, which severly limits how much use you can be to the military. Secondly there may be legal issues with allowing you to have a firearm. I don't know the law in this area, but as a fellon you probably can not legally be allowed to posess a firearm, and there may or may not be a military service exemption from that law. In other words, as things stand, the Army couldn't tell you any secrets and probably couldn't give you a weapon. That pretty much rules out you making any sort of meaningful contribution to our national defense.

Your raps don't seem very serious, so I don't know if you are eligible for service or not. That would be a matter for a recruter and a JAG lawyer. You might be able to get a waiver if you wanted one, but you don't seem to want one, so I won't bother with that.

Incidentally you are a fugative from justice as you never showed up for court in Colorado so there is bench warrant out for you in Colorado. Since you went to New York you crossed State Lines in order to avoid prosecution. That may be fellony flight, it is almost certianly a Federal Rap. (So much for the "law abiding since then." ) You should probably get that taken care of, because if a cop stops you and runs you in the database, he will see the Colorado warant and most likely arrest you on the spot, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

Second If you want answers on the Selective Service sytetm go to http://www.sss.gov/SEARCH.HTM which is their website. Don't listen to people who don't know what they are talking about.

Third, Curiousmorey is one of those people who doesn't know what he is talking about. The Selective Service Act was rewritten back in 1971. (From the Selective Service Act website).

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SELECTIVE SERVICE TODAY AND DURING VIETNAM Printer Friendly Version

The Agency has changed dramatically since the 1970s. A series of reforms during the latter part of the Vietnam conflict changed the way the draft operated. If a draft were held today it would be the most equitable draft in history:

If a draft were held today there would be fewer reasons to excuse a man from service.

Before Congress reformed the draft in 1971, a man could qualify for a student deferment if he could show he was a full-time student making satisfactory progress in virtually any field of study. He could continue to go to school and be deferred from service until he was too old to be drafted. Under the new draft law, a college student could have his induction postponed only until the end of the current semester. A senior could be postponed until the end of the full academic year.

If a draft were held today, local boards would better represent the communities they serve.

The changes in the new draft law made in 1971 included the provision that membership on the boards was required to be as representative as possible of the racial and ethnic background of the area served by the board.

Before 1971, state and local boards used a "quota system" under which they assigned a certain number of men to the draft. Because the boards determined who would be drafted, there were instances when personal relationships and favoritism played a part in deciding who would be drafted. Today, the Uniform National Call ensures that men will be treated the same, no matter which board they are assigned to.

A draft held today would use a lottery to determine the order of call.

Before the lottery was implemented in the latter part of the Vietnam conflict, there was no system in place to determine order of call besides the fact that men between the ages of 18 and 26 were vulnerable to being drafted. This lack of a system resulted in uncertainty for the potential draftees during the entire time they were within the draft-eligible age group. All throughout a young man’s early 20’s he did not know if he would be drafted. A draft held today would use a lottery system under which a man would spend only one year in first priority for the draft—either the calendar year he turned 20 or the year his deferment ended, whichever came first. If he was not drafted in his first priority year, he dropped into second priority. In this way he would be spared the uncertainty of waiting until his 26th birthday to be certain he would not be drafted.

If a draft were held today, a registrant would be guaranteed a personal appearance before his board if he wanted to appeal his classification.

Before 1971, a draftee was not guaranteed this right, and so some decisions about whether a man would be drafted were made based on paperwork. Today, if a man wanted to appeal to his Local Board for an exemption or deferment, he could speak to them directly.

Next, aboucha66 is wrong, you are NOT 'too old". Men between the ages of 18 and 26 MUST be registered, Federal Law allows men up to age 45 to be drafted if things get bad enough. (Think Germany 1917... they were drafting up to about that age then, if I remember my history correctly... in 1945 they were in a similar boat.) Right now the National Guard will take volunteers up to age 42 if they can cut it physically. Adam M is right, it all depends on how badly troops are needed.

Bottom line... dude there isn't a draft and unless the Chinese land in California, or the Iranians nuke Baltimore, there isn't going to be a draft. The Army is an elete force of highly motivated, highly professional, highly trained people, and draftees just mess that all up. They are more trouble than they are worth.

Secondly, IF there was a draft, you are within the correct ages to be drafted.

Third, that being said, in the very unlikely event there is a draft, it is highly unlikely that you are qualified to be drafted. If the Imperial Martian Space Marines showed up in Grovers Mill, New Jersey and started blasting through our troops with a heat ray and tripod machines... then yeah, you, Tom Cruise, and Dakota Fanning would probably all get drafted (if the war lasted long enough). Barring that... you are safe.

Answer 10

Why would you assume there would be a draft? There isnt going to be a draft any time soon.

You are also too old.

Also, you are an ex-con.... and WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DESTROY TOMBS?