The Selective Service Initative refers to two bills currently in Congress: HR163 and S89, to reinstate conscription ("the draft"), claimed to be as response to the continued War on Terrorism, which encompassess the current 2004 Iraq War, Afghanistan, and possible wars with other countries. The United States has employed conscription (mandatory military service, also called the draft) several times, usually during war but also during the nominal peace of the Cold War. ... The War on terrorism or War on terror (abbreviated in policy circles as GWOT for global war on terror) is a global effort by the governments of several countries (primarily the United States and its principal allies) to neutralize international groups it deems as terrorist (primarily radical Islamist terrorist groups...
THe contents of the bills provide that, if they were to be passed and signed, as early as June 2005, young men and women ages 18-26 could be called to service. The United States is also entering into a pact with Canada which will make entering that country more difficult. In addition, college will no longer be a reprieve for young people wishing to forestall the draft. Ongoing events • 2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • German Visa Affair 2005 • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Election of OAS Secretary General • Stanislav Gross scandal in Czech republic Upcoming events Deaths in May May 3: Jagjit Singh Aurora May 3: Don Canham May...
The House bill, sponsored by Charles Rangel and twelve other Democratic representatives, was brought to the floor for a vote on October 5, 2004. Because the bill was considered under a motion to suspend the rules, it required a two-thirds vote for passage. The roll call vote on the bill was 2 in favor, 402 against. House of Representatives is a name used for legislative bodies in many countries. ... Charles Bernard Rangel Charles Bernard Rangel (born June 11, American politician. ...
The SelectiveService Act of 1917 was adopted in large part because a civilian-led "preparedness" movement had persuaded many Americans that a selective national draft was the most equitable and efficient way for an industrial society to raise a wartime army.
Obligatory service in the armed forces has existed since ancient times in many cultures, including the samurai in Japan, warriors in the Aztec Empire, citizen militiamen in ancient Greece and Rome, and aristocrats and their peasants or yeomen during the Middle Ages in Europe.
The term "conscription" refers only to the mandatory service; thus, those undergoing conscription are known as "conscripts" or "selectee" in the United States (from the SelectiveService System or the SelectiveServiceInitiative announced in 2004).
Having completed the initial part of the service as a conscript, the soldier is placed in the reserve.
Refusing the obligatory military service due to conscientious objection is illegal in Turkey, and punishable with imprisonment by law.
For example, the Argentinian military service was known as la colimba; the word colimba is a composite word made from the initial syllables of the verbs correr (to run), limpiar (to clean) and barrer (to sweep), as it was perceived that all a conscript did during service was running, cleaning and sweeping.
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