The Pentagon says the country should stick with mandatory registration for a military draft, and it advocates a requirement for women to sign up for the first time in the nation's history, the Washington Times website reports today (October 24, 2017).
The recommendations are contained in a Defense Department report to Congress that serves as a starting point for a commission examining military, national, and public service.
Currently, only male citizens and residents ages 18-25 are required to register, for a pace of about 2 million each year.
Women -- whom the government has never ordered to sign up -- would add 11 million to the Selective Service System database "in short order," the report says.
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