Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday women will find themselves registering for the draft like their male counterparts if the military hopes to reach “true and pure equality.”
“If your objective is true and pure equality then you have to look at all aspects” of women in the military, McHugh said, according to a report from Military.com.
This includes selective service, he said at Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington, D.C.
McHugh also said selective service will be decided by Congress, and he expects a “pretty emotional debate and discussion.”
“If we find ourselves as a military writ large where men and women have equal opportunity, as I believe we should,” McHugh said.
I will not worry until we all have to use one common restroom. Maybe not even then.
Is there a good reason for women to be exempted from the draft?
I have no problem with women having to register for the draft. In fact, if we had a draft, I think politicians would be FAR less likely to go to war.
No. Then again, there will never again be a draft–and I mean never. If we get to that point in a war, we’d already be so fucked that more troops won’t matter in the outcome.
Because it doesn’t make sense to kill all the young men AND the only vehicle to repopulating. Seriously. If you kill a lot of enlisted and the women who give birth, it’s a population issue.
Edit: Apparently it wasn’t clear that this post was in reference to historical policy and not advocating a position. It never occurred to me that the existence of this policy when draft inclusion was decided was not obvious.