Congress Weighs Drafting Women To Military
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🗓️ 21 June 2024
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Summary
Congress is weighing proposals to update mandatory military conscription policies — aka the draft — including whether to expand it to include women. It’s an idea that’s been debated for a while, especially since women started serving in combat roles nearly a decade ago. This month, a proposal to require women to register for the draft was included in a big Pentagon policy bill passed out of the Senate Armed Services Committee. However, it’s unlikely to win final approval. Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow and director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for New American Security, explains why the draft is still limited to just men.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, June 21st, I'm Travel Anderson. |
| 0:04.7 | And I'm Priyanka Ara Bindi, and this is what a day, |
| 0:07.2 | where we are questioning the exterminator team |
| 0:09.9 | at the State Department, after a cockroach crawling on the wall disrupted |
| 0:13.5 | spokesperson Matt Miller's train of thought during a briefing. |
| 0:16.5 | Yeah Miller told reporters quote I hate to interrupt there's a big cockroach on the |
| 0:21.4 | wall over your head there. |
| 0:23.6 | We'll defer that, no insecticide, no roach aside |
| 0:27.2 | in the briefing. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, Skotis upholds a Trump era tax law and issues three other decisions. |
| 0:37.0 | Plus Vice President Kamala Harris and rapper Quavel talk about gun violence. |
| 0:42.0 | But first, Congress is assessing proposals |
| 0:44.6 | to update mandatory military conscription policies, |
| 0:47.8 | aka the draft, including whether to expand the draft |
| 0:51.4 | to women. Just a bit of background here before we get |
| 0:54.2 | into it. The US military has not actually used the draft in more than 50 years. The |
| 0:59.2 | last time was in 1973, which was the year that the US withdrew from the Vietnam War. |
| 1:04.1 | Since then, we've had an all-volunteer military force. |
| 1:07.3 | But federal law still requires almost all men in the US |
| 1:10.8 | between the ages of 18 and 25 to register with the selective service system. |
| 1:16.2 | That agency keeps a database of all the people around the country who could possibly be subject |
| 1:21.1 | to a draft if Congress and the president ever activated one. |
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