draft bill introduced in the house Options

[Seeker]

Congressman Charles Rangel (Democrat) introduced a bill (Universal National Service Act of 2006 - HR 4752 IH) aiming at drafting everyone from the ages of 18 to 42 into the military for a minimum of 2 years.

Quote from the bill:

To provide for the common defense by requiring all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes

This bill was introduced February 14th and is scheduled to be debated and possibily adopted on 6-6-06.

Read the bill online:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-4752
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4752

[M1N10N]

yeah, and the uproar that would happen if it was adopted

i could just imagine 40 yo women fighting in the army.....

There is a lot of paper to be shuffled. Nursing and administrative and other non combat fields do exist.

I would like to see something like the public works, but only if they did pay for higher education too, maybe not fully just a 1:1 trade for time spent..