How does a US draft System work?
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THE QUESTION ON HOW IT WORKS:\n\nIn war time, if the nation state does not have enough volunteers and career servicemen in the armed forces, the the government may, at will, issue notice that eligible male (usually male) MUST report to armed services duty.   \n\nThe US, did away with the draft in 1973, and in 2004 created what is known as 'the all volunteer-army'.    Though this contradicts the fact that US has imposed involuntarily reenlistment after voluntary service was completed.  This has happened in both Golf Wars.\n\nThough the draft is official done away with, the US has what is known as Selective Service System.  This a a contingency system where young men are required to register in case the country ever needs to resume a draft.
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No - women in the USA can not be drafted. Not yet anyway. There is some discussion in changing the laws to draft women in a state emergency..., National Guards.., that type of thing.\n\nSo far no serious moves have been made to that end.\nSome countries do, Israel being one of them.
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Ain't gonna happen, and with good reason.  Soldiers these days are not cannon fodder --- they are highly trained specialists in the use of advanced weapons.  And you cannot recruit, let alone retain, people qualified to do this with a draft.
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You get into a league that has an acceptable draft date and time for you.  \nYou draft a team using current NFL players.  At this point, you should have researched which players are most desirable to have on your team and which positions will grant you the most points (ex. RBs and WRs are higher priority than K, DEF, and even most TEs).\nAfter you have drafted a team, you select your starting lineup for the first week against your opponent.  Using the provided scoring system for your league, you try to pick who you believe will garner the most points for you in that week.  The team with the most points wins the face-off that week.  The second week, you go through the same thing, but against a different opponent in your league.  \nBYE weeks are in effect, which means that certain players will have one week off during the season.  This is crucial since you eed to have backups from your bench cover for your players at least once ... it is important to draft well and keep an eye on the waiver wire for available players (to add while removing players that you feel are not helping you win the games).\n\nSince this seems to be your first time playing, try to find a free league.  That way, you only lose games and not anything else ... like an entry fee.  If you don't like it, then at least you saved yourself a few bucks.\n\nCheck out NFL.com, Yahoo or ESPN for fantasy football leagues and read up on them to see if you like what you see from them.
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No.  the US is currently a voluntary army.\n\nUS males 18 - 25 have to sign up for 'Selective Service', which basically states that if a Draft is re-enacted, they they can be drafted.
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The draft age has been extended to 35 so it is now 18-35.  Keep in mind there are a number of things that effect when you would be called such as number of dependents and so forth.
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There are a number of sites that have draft analysis.  See below:
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In the U.S. we have an all volunteer military so this would not apply to those who volunteer to serve.  When we had a Draft it was a felony to refuse induction.
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Chill kid you are required by law to fill it out and give it to the post office. It doesn't mean your joining the military it puts your name on a list that if the draft were ever reinstated you could be called there are no exceptions so fill it out and send it. It's been the law since 1980's all males that turn 18 must fill out the form. don't sweat it it's nothing.
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Assuming you mean professionally: if you don't get drafted, then you go to a team's open tryouts.  There, you try out for scouts and they decide if you have talent.
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This is from the Selective Service Website:  "Contrary to popular belief, "only sons," "the last son to carry the family name," and "sole surviving sons" must register and they can be drafted."\n\nHowever... I will say with almost complete coviction that there will NEVER BE ANOTHER DRAFT.\n\nThe simple answer to your question is "no", but not because of the reasons these people are stating.  The reason a single male child cannot be drafted is because THERE IS NO DRAFT.  So... NOBODY can be drafted.\n\nIn every draft that the United States has ever implented, there has never been such a provision (exemption due to "only son" status.  This is pure urban legend.\n\nNow... do YOU have to worry about being drafted?  The answer is NO.  There are people with political motivations who are trying their best to scare the 18-22 year-old-male crowd with this nonsense.  But it just ain't going to happen.  For lots of reasons.  Most importantly, because the Pentagon DOESN'T WANT a draft.  They would much rather enlist volunteers, even if they have to offer better pay and benefits.  The Army learned its lesson about conscription in Vietnam.   The war in Iraq is already unpopular, can you imagine the reaction if there were actually people serving over there who didn't volunteer for it?\n\nSecondly, if you have questions, just check out the Selective Service website (www.sss.gov).\n\nThirdly, the Army is currently exceeding its recruiting goals.\n\nSo... my advice...  Register with Selective Service (it is the law, you know), and stop worrying.   It is difficult to imagine any scenario in which millions of unwilling young Americans would need to be pressed into service.  Those days are gone, replaced by America's massive technological war machine.  Barring an invasion of California by China (or somebody), I can't see a draft ever being re-instated.
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Once your draft is over the settings are final. You can't change.
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Well, as far as I know, the process in the US must be similar to that of Argentina (where I live), since both countries are federal, representative democratic republics (how democratic they really are might be up to debate)...\nAnyway, in such system, the government is divided in three powers... Executive, Legislative and Judiciary.\n\nThe Legislative Power (Senate and Congress) has its members elected every x number of years (2, I think), from the different political parties they belong two. (In the US there are only two important political parties, but here in Argentina we have more ideological diversity).\n\nAnyway, these elected representatives of the Legislative Power propose laws among themselves, which must be examined by jurists, and then voted, either on the Senate or on the Chamber of Representatives (depending on the law itself), and then, if the law is aproved, its passed over to the president (executive power), so that he turns the project into an effective law. Sometimes the president can veto some laws, annuling them.\nAlso, sometimes the president can write laws by himself, without them passing through the congress. But this is a mechanism supposed to be reserved for special occasions, and if a president does this too regularly he might be accused of abusing his power.\n\nThe duty of the judiciary is to ensure that the already enacted laws are enforced in the country. Sometimes, the different judges must decide is a law is or not valid in certain occasions, setting precedents that are then followed.\n\nTo sum up - Legislative creates and approves the laws.\nExecutive enforces them in the territory, and sometimes can veto them or propose its own laws, and judiciary has the duty to examin how are these laws enforced on the territory, making sure that people obey them.\n\n\nThis is how the system is supposed to work, but as you will see, the problems of corruption, political and economic lobbies, bussiness influence, and dictatorial tendencies of some politicians often tend to end up screwing the system.\n\n\nEdit: I am talking about national laws too. The different states and counties have their own executive, legislative and judiciary powers.\nFor more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_government\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy
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you can't really say until the entire draft order is set.
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Don't believe the hype. There is not going to be a draft. There is only one nutjob who wants it,and thats Democrat Charlie Rangel. The dems just took back the senate,and the house,and they're not going to screw it up by reinstating the draft,and if for some reason they decided to commit political suicide, Bush would still veto it. It's just one nut trying to stir things up,don't worry about it.
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I know a little bit about this. Hopefully more than you know now.\n\n1) You can. Anyone can enter the draft. A guy I went to college with applied for the NBA draft even though he was lousy and had no chance whatsoever of getting picked. He just thought it would be cool.\n\n2) I know it involved filing official papers with the league.\n\n3) As long as you don't hire an agent, you can maintain any college eligibility you might have left. If you hire an agent, that is the end of that.
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U GO GUY!\nTHANKS!!!!\nI was a draftee, 1971, US Army.\nLottery #9\n\n&#92;My problem is I should have stayed in, I'd be retired and working on a second career by now.