strange question,but this is bothering me to know the answere
#353108 - 12/10/09 07:29 AM
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well I was at work and a guy said when he was 18 he had to sign up for a draft...I asked is there anyway to get out of it,and everyone said only if your pregnant or have a life threatening condition. Does that mean someone with severe irritable bowel would have to be in the army or watever with terrible ibs and suffer so bad with everything from having stool stuck inside all day becaue they have to go to the bathroom several times an hour and aren't allowed or suffer eating the nasty food or starve?
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Where are you from?If you are in The US or Canada I don't think you have to sign up for the military at all.
The draft is still used in some countries but not ours.
In cuba I think it is everyone is in the military.They all go for basic training so everyone in the country knows how to fight just in case.I think thats the right country.....not really a bad idea considering the state of things these days.
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well my friend from work who is now 19,had to sign up when he was 18,I'we're from north dakota. I guess all I wanted to know is if you can get out of a draft if there was or is one,becaue of terrible ibs. I thought the fact that I was a woman would be enough to get me out,but people at work laughed and said in the old days. I guess the fact that several people said only if your pregnant or have a life threatening condition,u can get out of it. I asked what if someone has a terrible back or a health condition where they have to follow a special diet, they said oh the military would find them somthing to do and you would have to eat their food or starve.
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That is ridiculous! The draft has been gone for years...Thank God!
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All 18-25 year old males who are citizens of the United States need to register with the Selective Service. Which would then leave you available to be drafted if and when a draft was re-established.
The last draft ended in 1973 near the end of the SouthEast Asia War Games.
There are some circumstances that would stop you from being drafted into the military, but I don't think IBS would be one of them.
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ok if someone with ibs got drafted and all they did was feel terrible and spend their whole day on the toilet,what good are they to the military? so if someone had a health condition,ibs and had to follow the ibs diet,the military wouldn't care and would just let that person suffer day and night? or wat if someone with ibs said to let them get out of the draft or they would kill themself? or wat if someone with ibs said they were gay or lesbian,don't know but is isn't that not allowed?
Edited by aperson (12/10/09 04:15 PM)
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Yeah, I have always wondered about this too. Like how in Vietnam did soldiers with IBS cope?? I can't imagine the US gov't considering it a disqualifiable condition. US Social Security certainly doesn't view it it as a qualifying illness for a disability... 
There are plenty of times I thought I was going to die having a D attack in the comfort of my bathroom, let alone outdoors in a jungle/forest/desert surrounded by guns, ammunition and war! The situation could be worse... No toilet paper, running water or cold linoleum on your hot cheek to pass out on, hands clenched, sweating and shivering...  
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This has not happened in my family. Never knew a thing about it. None of my male relatives have done this. Hopefully, the draft will STAY a thing of the past.
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never knew a thing about what? would you think a women would be the last person to draft if there was one? if you say you are a lesbion(isn't that not allowed?) then they won't let u be drafted? or maybe if you said your digestive problems were so severe and you were already felt mentally unstable then said that if you were going to be drafted you would shoot yourself? or if you told them you already feel weak and like you will pass out from ibs?
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What in the world are you talking about? I am heterosexual. I was not aware of the need to register for anything. That is what I meant about not knowing a thing about it.
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oops sorry,also I am straight,also called heterosexual right?
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I think those things should be changed
"US Social Security certainly doesn't view it it as a qualifying illness for a disability"
I was reading a post on this site about places that have to open employee only bathroom's for people with digestive conditions where an emergency to use the toilet can happen...
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This conversation has taken so many interesting turns! There is no draft in the US people are right who said that. BUT all MEN not women at age 18 do have to register for the selective service. I assume it is in case the draft is ever re-instated. aperson, as long as you are afemaleperson even if you are astraightfemaleperson you are NOT going to get drafted! I think you should rest assured, i think the people at your work are either misinformed or simply inventing their facts. 
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but why are they saying that women can get drafted too and only in the old days they couldn't,but you can only get out of it if you are pregnant or have a life threatening illness? but if it's true that being a woman atomatically makes me not be able to get drafted,then I love being a woman even more.
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Well, other countries do require women to do mandatory service. And, since the time of the last US draft, the Vietnam war, there are many more women in the US military than before. I actually don't know if there were any women in the military then, its before my time... I guess your co-workers are putting those two things together and making up something from that. There is NO draft in the US. In order to bring it back, lawmakers would have to change the law. I think that would be extremely hard politically for them to do unless we were facing a huge war like WWI & WWII
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#353144 - 12/11/09 06:19 AM
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Quote:
This has not happened in my family. Never knew a thing about it. None of my male relatives have done this. Hopefully, the draft will STAY a thing of the past.
You are mistaken. All 18 year old males must register with the Selective Service. Usually a young man will register during his senior year at school, through the Post Office, or online. If not he is breaking the law, but is usually not hunted down. He would not be eligible for any school grants, government jobs, or even unemployment pay. Nor would he be a lawyer, fireman, police officer, physician, or any other profession where there would be any reasonable kind of back ground check.
I am sure that all males in your family have registered … and it doesn't mean that they will be drafted, but the possibility is there if a draft were reinstated.
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I am sure you are right DJ. I was not aware of it. I have checked with several cousins and they say no. But, then again, maybe they have and don't realize it. I have learned something today.
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Yep!
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Your co-workers are either teasing you unmercifully, or they don't know the truth.
Women have always fought alongside their men, but in the United States they have never been drafted, and not until recently have women ever fought in a hostile fire zone.
Scroll down to the section "United States" in the following link.
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"as long as you are afemaleperson even if you are astraightfemaleperson you are NOT going to get drafted!"
there's a rule list printed and it says men at work have to be clean shaven and can have only well groomed mustaches,no gotoas watsoever. It doesn't say anything about women's facial hair or being clean shaven,and I've seen women mustaches and beards
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