Draft Rules For War In Los Angeles
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Significant physical disabilities, such as loss of limbs, paralysis, or severe deformities, can disqualify you. Conditions like scoliosis, if severe, also affect eligibility. For example, individuals with amputated limbs or severe spinal curvatures often don't meet the physical demands of military service.
Individuals may be exempt from the draft if they are sole providers for dependents. Situations include single parents caring for children, caregivers for disabled family members, or individuals supporting elderly parents. The Selective Service verifies these claims.
All men 18 years and older had to register with the Selective Service. All men between the ages of 18 and 25 were eligible to be drafted for a service requirement of 21 months.
Exemptions Ministers. Certain elected officials, exempt so long as they continue to hold office. Veterans, generally exempt from service in peacetime draft. Immigrants and dual nationals in some cases may be exempt from U.S. military service depending upon their place of residence and country of citizenship.
The maximum age for being drafted is 26, after which individuals are no longer eligible for conscription.
An American may be drafted into military service only if Congress has initiated legislature to re-institute a draft. It is not required for a war to exist, but it is highly unlikely that the US would institute a draft unless the threat to our country were huge, imminent, and existential.
If convicted, registration resisters could be sentenced to up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 line. But very few, if any resisters will get such a stiff punishment, even if prosecutions are resumed. Even if you are caught, there's a good chance you won't be prosecuted.
Men turning 21 in the year of the draft would be second priority, men turning 22 would be third, and so on until a man turns 26, at which time he is over the age of liability.
In the US, there are just over a million players at the high school level. Of those, 73,712 make it to the NCAA level, representing just 7.3% of the talent pool. At any one time, just over 16,000 are draft eligible, which is only 1.6% of that college player pool. And then only 259 players will be drafted.
