Bush reducing DRAFT activation time from 8 months to 75 days by 03/31/05!!

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Mon Dec-22-03 11:10 PM
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Bush reducing DRAFT activation time from 8 months to 75 days by 03/31/05!!

Edited on Mon Dec-22-03 11:13 PM by Dems Will Win

http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html

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Strategic Goal 1: Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the Manpower Delivery Systems (Projected allocation for FY 2004 � $7,942,000)

Strategic Goal 2: Improve overall Registration Compliance and Service to the Public (Projected allocation FY 2004 � $8,769,000)

Strategic Goal 3: Enhance external and internal customer service
(Projected allocation for FY 2004 � $10,624,000)

Strategic Goal 4: Enhance the system which guarantees that each conscientious objector is properly classified, placed, and monitored.(Projected allocation for FY 2004 � $955,000)

Total=$28,290,000

An annual report providing the results of the implementation of these performance
measures will be submitted by March 31, 2005. This report will address attained versus
planned levels of performance, explain unattained target levels, and identify where and
how strategies, performance goals, and performance indicators should be changed to
ensure that the SSS reaches its strategic and annual goals and objectives.

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tie that paragraph to this one:

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Strategic Objective 1.2: Ensure a mobilization infrastructure of 56 State Headquarters,
442 Area Offices and 1,980 Local Boards are operational within 75 days of an authorized
return to conscription.

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They are reducing draft activation time to 75 days from the current 7-8 months. The first draft lottery according to this official document could be June 15, 2005.

Question: why does a dormant agency need to be ready to answer all correspondence in 10 days?

They said "no plans" yet they are conducting nation-wide exercises far beyond what is needed for a dormant agency. This is really a plan to get the whole system ready for activation within the 75 days proscribed, although Congress must authorize the actual activation. They are trying to stop this discussion by saying "no plans", making everybody think it's off the table. They just mean Bush has "no plans" to ask Congress at this time. Yet on April 1, 2005, according to this he could ask for activation and have it in 75 days.

Also draft boards reported being "unexpectedly" asked during summer training sessions to fill the Board vacancies (salon.com from a Philly draft Board member)

Also Rumsfeld's leaked memo said "long hard slog" and "we have not made any truly bold moves yet"--and that was after Iraq and Afghanistan.

They are even making sure the Alternative Service is all exercised and ready to go within 75 days of March 31, 2005.

This is called Performance improvement but it looks exactly like a readiness action. They are bringing the whole system up to 90% + operational capability after 30 years of dormancy. Obviously, with a war on terror this could be considered prudent (although you don't need a draft to catch Osama Bin Laden and several thousand al-Queadas). Then why did they scrub the Draft Board notice? Why not come say out front we are filling the Draft Boards and gearing up the system in case the President needs it to fight the war on terror?

Congress would of course have to approve, supposedly after a Joint Session by the President where he could easily say "we are not going to cut and run" (same was said in Vietnam). By March 31, 2005, the draft may only be 75 days away.

This change the dynamics of this issue, because people will say OK, Bush is getting the first draft lottery ready by June 15, 2005 if we need it. Now do I trust him or the Democrat more to not reinstate, given Iraq and PNAC?

In addition, Brodsky, the head of SSS, says a priority will be drafting Special Skills Personnel: 20 to 45 year-old computer experts, linguists (especially Islamic languages), and engineers. All 3.4 million doctors and nurses under 45 will have to register in a MEDICAL DRAFT (HCPDS) at their local Post Office in 2005 if the DRAFT is activated. All signs are they will ask for the draft at that earliest possible moment and will probably establish the Special Skills Personnel Delivery System (like the HCPDS) even sooner, as soon as the election is over in November, 2004, although these computer programmers and engineers would not have to register until the draft was activated (like the doctors and nurses). AND NO MEDICAL DEFERMENTS FOR SSPDS OR HCPDS, OTHER THAN TOTAL DISABLILITY!!

YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW, BUDDY!

NOTE: This extra paragraph was just added to this page after the Senate voted down the extra $2 million for the APP and means they'll jigger the funds and get the DRAFT ready anyway under the "Performance Plan" Lottery and Medical Exam Exercises.

WHO DO YOU KNOW WHO WOULD BE DRAFTED UNDER THE REGULAR DRAFT (men up to 26, especially those who turn 20 in 2005), THE MEDICAL DRAFT (men and women under age 45 in ANY medical profession) or the SPECIAL SKILLS DRAFT (men and women under age 45 in ANY profession the DoD asks for, starting with LINGUISTS first, then COMPUTER EXPERTS, then ENGINEERS)???

HMMM? KNOW ANYBODY??? HMMM?