120 year old must register for draft
The Washington Times reports that 80-year-old Martha Weaver received a notice from the Selective Service for her father, Fred Minnick, to register for the draft. Fred was born in 1894 and died in 1992.
Her father’s name was Fred Minnick, though the notice misspelled the last name “Minick” and warns that failure to register is “punishable by a fine and imprisonment.”
Her father was born on June 12, 1894, which means he would have turned 18 in 1912.
Weaver suspects the confusion was spawned by the incorrect birth date on the form, which lists the birth year as 1994.
I didn’t know that they were sending out those letters to delinquents. I’m glad that they are, though. I took my son to register on his 18th birthday and then I took him down to register to vote.
But this is a good example of the folks that more Americans want to manage their healthcare.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
I enlisted in the Navy when I turned 17, I never bothered to register with Selective Service. But, shortly after I turned 18, they mailed me the draft “card”, couldn’t help but wonder how they were going to draft me out of the Navy….
Had a kid in my unit that got a nastygram from Selective Service that he needed to register for the draft. He went to Top about it and Top told him he still had to register. Typical of our government system, eh?
https://www.sss.gov/fswho.htm “FULL-TIME MILITARY EXEMPTED FROM REQUIREMENT*
Young men serving in the military on full-time active duty do not have to register. Those attending the service academies do not have to register. However, if a young man leaves the military before turning 26, he must register.”
I registered prior to entering a service scademy, and still got a you failed to register notice in my third year at the Academy. Top minds.
That may be true now, but 30+ years ago, you had to register no matter whether you were already in, or not.
These days the military does it for you automatically if you’re not registered. I never registered when I turned 18 because I was going into the Army anyway. When I tried to register after I had gotten out I found that I was already signed up. The date of my registration was the same day I shipped out to basic.
I am 37, a US Veteran of 15 years, and permanently disabled. I was just told I am in trouble for not registering. WTFUSA?
I am going to college and the school and FAFSA said i NEED to register. I thought there was a cut off at some point?
Maybe she should check to see if her father also still votes…
He voted for Obama twice for president and he’s thinking about backing Warren in the primaries
😉
Strange how many dead people support Obamacare from beyond the grave. I guess they have nothing to lose, being already dead and whatnot…
Makes it easier for the death panels since they are already dead…
Of course they are eligible for subsidies since they have little to no income…
Perhaps this could be a way to slow the flow of illegals – make sure that this info gets put out:
“Almost all other male non-citizens are required to register, including undocumented immigrants, legal permanent residents, and refugees.”
“Registration is the law. A man who fails to register may, if prosecuted and convicted, face a fine of up to $250,000 and/or a prison term of up to five years.”
Also, the Feds and many states have laws limiting or prohibiting certain benefits and jobs to folks who haven’t registered. Wouldn’t it be nice to enforce this law…. ha.
Out.
and it would be enforced like the border. What makes you think anyone would pay attention to that if they are laughing at the laws and getting away with it now?
I went back in time to fetch this:
How could illegal immigrants file for SSS, when they do not qualify for military service?
Well if they can track and send letters to guys 102 years past the date they were 18 it sort of explains our whole ability to track aliens once they are released into society….
Bingo.
+100
I registered when I turned 18, in 1980. Did 24 years active duty, retired in 2012. Still had to provide proof to DHS to get a clearance for the current job.
SFC … you did not have to provide. In fact you were exempt.
In my case I never registered nor will I ever have to and I am kinda not exempt.
I joined when 17, therefore never had to register, then I got out after the age of 28. Interesting.
I when the question comes up, I answer, “nope, no, ain’t going do it, been here and done this before, check your regs, you have be kidding me, you are a moron, bye bye”.
I had to provide my selective service registration number on E-QIP. The software won’t allow for a blank entry. At least the directions were clear on how to obtain your number, it was relatively easy.
I’m sure that if Selective Service sends someone to arrest Fred Winnick, they’ll find that he is a grave man.
They’ll find it’s a dead issue.
The Government will find out they were dead wrong.
But it will take them another 102 years to figure that out.
As others have noted. Nowadays you have to register in order to enlist. At least it has been that way since 2008 when I went to Recruiting.
I only want to know when they’ll start sending out notices to women to register at age 18. 🙂 <3 <3 <3
Just out of curiosity, does anybody here know whether our esteemed CinC ever bothered to register with Selective Service? If not, I would have to assume that he was never qualified to hold any position with the Federal government. Of course, if he had to leave office, we’d be stuck with “Shotgun Joe” Biden.
This was always one of my favorite selective stories.
http://www.snopes.com/military/icecream.asp
Mike navy contract had a paragraph that said it fulfilled my selective service obligation. When I got my notice I sent them a copy with the blank registration form.
When registering the dead to vote, all sorts of other parts and pieces of our find and outstanding bureaucracy gets triggered.
I was forwarded my Draft Notice in Boot Camp in San Diego MCRD. My Senior Drill Instructor said he would take care of it. I would really like to know what he sent the Dallas draft broad. Joe
I was 17 when we went on spring break during the last week of April 1975. When I came back to school as an 18 year old May 2nd or 4th I was told I would not have to register for the draft. The draft registration had ended. When did our kids have to again start registering and why? I don’t want my grandkids fighting in these ‘Corporate Wars’.
Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration in 1979 when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.