"The Selective Service System is planning a comprehensive test of the military draft machinery, which hasn't been run since 1998. The agency is not gearing up for a draft, an agency official said Thursday. The test itself would not likely occur until 2009."
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,121118,00.html?ESRC=navy-a.nl
Note that the SSS has nothing to do with the military, isn't run by the military, and probably can't even get phone calls returned by the military.
Call me cynical, but a system that's supposed to be tested just once every three years and keeps getting canceled for lack of funding must not be a very high priority. In fact, if I was trying to kill off this particular govt agency, I'd give them the money to run their test and then sic the GAO on them. After demonstrating that they couldn't even do their job right when they were getting paid to do so, they'd be "reallocated" to some other part of the Homeland Defense budget.
Stay tuned for future spinfests...
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,121118,00.html?ESRC=navy-a.nl
Note that the SSS has nothing to do with the military, isn't run by the military, and probably can't even get phone calls returned by the military.
Call me cynical, but a system that's supposed to be tested just once every three years and keeps getting canceled for lack of funding must not be a very high priority. In fact, if I was trying to kill off this particular govt agency, I'd give them the money to run their test and then sic the GAO on them. After demonstrating that they couldn't even do their job right when they were getting paid to do so, they'd be "reallocated" to some other part of the Homeland Defense budget.
Stay tuned for future spinfests...