Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD)

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From Draft NOtices, October-December 2024

-- Lauren Reyna Morales

For the past several years, all branches of the U.S. military have experienced declining enlistment rates. Defense Department stakeholders have given varied explanations for this trend. Some espouse the ultra-conservative military-has-gone-woke narrative, while others cite a shift in young Americans’ perspectives on U.S. militarism. Some argue it’s because recruiters don’t have sufficient access to potential enlistees at high schools. Others point to the fact that a growing number of Americans are unable to meet standards required for enlistment, even if they had an interest in doing so.

No doubt there are a multitude of reasons for recent recruitment shortcomings. Regardless of the explanation, the military is working overtime to address the problem.

Expansion of Draft Registration Threatened by Congress
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From Draft NOtices, October-December 2024

-- Rick Jahnkow

In early November, Congress will be voting on final language for the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which contains proposals that would dramatically change contingency planning for any future military draft.

Both the Senate and House have passed their own versions of the annual NDAA, which are now being considered for consolidation into a single final version. Both versions have language that would, for the first time, require automatic draft registration of 18-year-old men with the Selective Service System, the agency tasked with managing any military draft callup.

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From Draft NOtices, April-June 2024

- Rick Jahnkow

The California legislature is considering a bill that would require the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to automatically register male residents with the Selective Service System (SSS), the federal agency that would conduct any future military draft.

The bill, SB 1081, was introduced on February 12 by State Senator Bob Archuleta (D-32). If enacted, it would amend the state vehicle code so that the DMV would automatically register individuals with SSS when they submit an original or renewal application for a driver’s license or state ID. This would include applicants between the ages of 16 and 26 who were male at birth (SSS does not register women or trans males). Since men are only required to register with the SSS at age 18, the DMV would delay registering younger applicants until they have reached that age.

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Ninth CIRCUIT COURT RULING: CONFRONTING MILITARISM BY USING EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOLS

When the military comes to your local high school, you have a legal right to give students an opposing view. This has been the position taken by federal district courts in Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois and two federal appellate courts. The most broadly-worded decision came from a case that COMD took to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1980s. Here is the background:

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