Women Should Be Required to Register for the Draft? LGF Poll
During today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on women in combat two top generals said that women should be required to register for the Selective Service, along with men, as the branches begin to integrate women into combat roles.
“I think that all eligible and qualified men and women should register for the draft,” General Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, told the Committee. Neller’s position was echoed by Army chief of staff General Mark Milley. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Acting Army Secretary Patrick Murphy were less willing to move quickly on requiring women to register, suggesting instead that there should be discussion of legislation that would eventually alter the current rules.
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