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Offline VAMPIRE 2?

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Selective services
« on: April 04, 2011, 03:29:13 AM »
I filed for my FASFA and was declined due to this matter. I'm fully up to speed now on what it is and what it's for, but since I am now 28 years of age, I'm to late and crap outa luck....???  I'm writing a letter to SSS now to hopefully have this issue resolved. I'm more or less curious if this is a rather unheard of problem. I'm from a small town with a graduating class of 60 students and a small staffed high school. (and hearing difficulty) How could I have missed such a crucial document?! as of now It may take years more to get a 4 year degree. < discouraging and depressing. am I really stuck laying brick next to grungy old broken back bar supporting masons? makes me want to drink too..... looking for a light at the end of this tunnel.   :salute
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Re: Selective services
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2011, 10:12:19 AM »
 Be careful, it might be the train! 

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Offline ozrocker

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Re: Selective services
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2011, 02:45:22 PM »
If you fail to register at 18 with Selective Service, there's a lot more than just FAFSA.
You can't work for Fed. Gov. for one thing. There's quite a few penalties.


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Re: Selective services
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2011, 02:55:10 PM »
That is odd when I got home from school on my 18th birthday I had two pieces of mail waiting for me.  One was from Gillette, free Mach 3, and the other was a card from selective services.
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Offline Banshee7

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Re: Selective services
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2011, 02:59:16 PM »
Quote from: allaire on April 04, 2011, 02:55:10 PM
That is odd when I got home from school on my 18th birthday I had two pieces of mail waiting for me.  One was from Gillette, free Mach 3, and the other was a card from selective services.

You too?? lol
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Offline Dichotomy

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Re: Selective services
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2011, 04:57:13 PM »
WHOA!!!!

Squid hasn't gotten one yet.  I'll get THAT fixed
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Re: Selective services
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2011, 06:42:49 PM »
Dicho -- why would squid need a mach 3?   :P

Same here when I turned 18 had the selective service card in the mail.  My oldest who's now 19 registered when his drivers license expired at 18 -- stupid state law -- need one type of license before 18, another for 18 to 21 and yet another when he's 21.  All full price and somehow his 18-21 expired when he was 19.  So he'll have had 4 licenses in about 4 years.

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Offline Blackwulf

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Re: Selective services
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2011, 06:51:49 PM »
I didn't get my notice from selective service at 18, as I had already enlisted in the USAF at 17.  Had to register once I got out later.
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Offline Dichotomy

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Re: Selective services
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2011, 07:11:11 PM »
Quote from: forHIM on April 04, 2011, 06:42:49 PM
Dicho -- why would squid need a mach 3?   :P

Same here when I turned 18 had the selective service card in the mail.  My oldest who's now 19 registered when his drivers license expired at 18 -- stupid state law -- need one type of license before 18, another for 18 to 21 and yet another when he's 21.  All full price and somehow his 18-21 expired when he was 19.  So he'll have had 4 licenses in about 4 years.



because he has a fuzzier face than pop dude :D
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Offline allaire

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Re: Selective services
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2011, 07:13:46 PM »
Quote from: Blackwulf on April 04, 2011, 06:51:49 PM
I didn't get my notice from selective service at 18, as I had already enlisted in the USAF at 17.  Had to register once I got out later.
Now that is funny.  The funnier thing is that your DD 214 is like a get out of draft free card. :devil
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Offline Rino

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Re: Selective services
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2011, 08:18:38 PM »
Quote from: Blackwulf on April 04, 2011, 06:51:49 PM
I didn't get my notice from selective service at 18, as I had already enlisted in the USAF at 17.  Had to register once I got out later.
 

     I got a nastygram from Selective service while I was out in Colorado when I was 19. It claimed I hadn't
registered for selective service.  I wrote back that I HAD registered at 18 and that if they didn't like it they
could contact me via my commanding officer at Lowery AFB, Denver, Co.   :D
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Re: Selective services
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2011, 08:21:58 PM »
Quote from: Rino on April 04, 2011, 08:18:38 PM
 

     I got a nastygram from Selective service while I was out in Colorado when I was 19. It claimed I hadn't
registered for selective service.  I wrote back that I HAD registered at 18 and that if they didn't like it they
could contact me via my commanding officer at Lowery AFB, Denver, Co.   :D

haha pwnt
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Re: Selective services
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2011, 01:21:10 AM »
I'm glad to get some responses on this matter, but I never received a letter or was informed about the matter. I WAS an only child  and we moved a few times, but we always kept our address up to date. I feel that my not registering was not intentional, and it states in the letter that if I can prove it, they will write it off allowing me to continue with my life...  hmm where would I start on proving a matter that they claim 96% of men in the U.S. have registered? and at 15,600,000 some men between ages 18-24 that leaves 600,000 to 1 million men unregistered and being denied the right to programs which aid in higher education. and by a system that hasn't been in effect in years... also it's called "SELECTIVE services" , how is that? it's mandatory!
 after some research, I find no difference between "SSS" and the draft itself.  ok  I'm off to find a box to live in so I can afford to be a student and hopefully be a contributing member a society.  oh and I'm to old to join the air force....   wouldn't you know, Is there a reason they only take children?  :salute  :bhead
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Re: Selective services
« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2011, 01:52:51 AM »
I also had a card.  It takes about 2 minutes to file online.
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Re: Selective services
« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2011, 02:01:01 AM »
I can remember I was stationed in Okinawa Ja;an and I got a nasty letter from th selectivee service directected through my actual APO address. It basically stated if I do not register for the draft that I am in violation of federal law and could be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, the kicker they mailmed it to LCPL R. Therrien. ????? Did they miss something in the address????

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