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What are you, a cop? Anyone who is actually planning to dodge shouldn’t be posting their ideas publicly.

Itd be really funny if a natiomal epidemic of bonespurs happened

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I’m pretty sure sure I don’t qualify. I have ADHD, Tourette’s, and I think I’m autistic. Not to mention that I may or may not be trans (I’ve considered it but I’m not really sure) and I think with all of those combined I would not be allowed

Just act gay or trans and come into the recruiter wearing a Mexican flag.

German here, so provably not applicable as it was 17 years ago (jeez) and a climate when they were just getting rid of it (only to reintroduce it again this year)

I avoided “Wehrdienst” by rolling in hungover with sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt, botching their written test and telling them how much I enjoy going to leftist demonstrations and how I can't wait to hold a weapon in my hand.

I think they don't enjoy the idea of arming and training leftists.

never felt so lucky to have a T4-L4 spinal fusion & epilepsy

Not to break anyone's spirits but I find it funny many of you believe your age, sexual orientation, health issues, etc., will matter to people like this. If they want you they are going to try to send you. These people don't seem to care about many laws so what's stopping them from sticking their most disliked groups straight to battle?

I took inspiration from Arlo Guthrie and I pre-emptively got a fine for littering so I have a criminal record and thus would be rejected.

Not of age, I got through the "draft period" during GWB. The US probably won't have a draft, mainly because we have a sizeable "volunteer" military.

However, if I was drafted, I would talk to my draft board about how I've read books about fragging, and how all I can think about is how powerful that is, for one man with one weapon on the inside to destroy or disrupt the chain of command. Then do your best Private Pyle "Seven Six Two millimeter. Full Metal jacket!" imitation. The military doesn't care about sending untrained and unqualified conscripts into an active war, but I doubt they will take someone who seems to have uncontrollable fantasies about shooting their own officer.

I still find it hard to believe it could happen, and certainly dont want to be proven wrong. Probably helps that I wouldn’t be eligible.

So the average person is out of shape, overweight, and knows nothing about the military or how to use weapons. Army boot camp may be only 10 weeks, but you have a very unready population and war has gotten much more complicated than it used to be. I find it hard to believe even the war-mongering fools currently running the us, would get us into something big enough and long-running enough for a draft to make a worthwhile difference.

Look at Iran. They might have started a never-ending war, but the approach is to sit back and bomb it. That won’t lead to a draft

Stepping back a bit, what about Iraq? That’s a bigger question since I don’t think we have the readiness to do that again, and it did require a ton of people. But they never instituted a draft, and the buildup was far too quick for one to be useful. … although that was also an international presence and the current regime is making sure that will never happen again

Then we get to Putin. Look at everything he’s gone through to avoid a draft, despite getting his country bogged down starting an absolutely brutal war resulting in hundreds of thousands of Russians killed or maimed. We all make the agent krasnov jokes, but there’s far more in common from one tyrant to another than any of us like

They aren't going to have a draft, they will just destroy the economy so young people have no other option but to volunteer for the military if they want to eat/feed their families.

Take an opiate before I go in and nod out in the line or seat or interview or whatever.

Also talk about how you've had to be on the opiates to come to terms with figuring out that you might be a different gender.

Boom. No war for you.

(I'm not really conscription age)

Geniuenly curious if you could just say "I am Muslim Alhamdulillah" and they refuse to draft you for this one.

I dont live in the US, but I had the same thoughts when Germany announced its plans on how to gather more meat for the military. Currently there are no crafts, but I for sure know my plan if its going to happen:

First of all, I Am trans and therefore dependant on medication (my HRT), ssecond is, that my whole body is basically fucked. I can not do a single pushup and will probably never in my life be able to do them again. As soon as I flex my left arm with just a little bit if resistance I can always feel something "snapping around" in my joint and that shit hurts quite bad if I continue to do exercises beside that. Next is, that I Am very tall and I already have back problems.

Finally, if my medical condition isnt enough, I will for sure appear to the draft stoned as hell. That motherfucker of a drug test is going to glow in the dark due to me making sure in prior, that AS many different drugs as possible will appear in it.

Edit: Ya all gave me great ideas, about telling them that I really like leftwing extremism.

Why would they draft me? I've never even been to the US!