So I joined the Army at 17 years old and now I am retired after 25 years.  Therefore, I wasn't old enough to register before I went into the Army. When I look at federal jobs announcement it says those born after 1959 have to be registered with the SSB.  I am old and disabled, do I have to register?

That's a good question. 

 

Maybe this will answer your question https://www.sss.gov/Registration/Who-Must-Register/Chart

Well who would'of thunk there be a website for that. I should have thought about that first. I will go to my room without dinner.

 

Thanks @lew

ACR, you done your time man! Don't think on it one second! 

1 hour ago, John Morris said:

ACR, you done your time man! Don't think on it one second! 

Ditto!!!!

Edited December 24, 20169 yr by Gene Howe

The selective service simply never crossed my mind. I was too busy having fun jumping out of airplanes and getting shot at.

1 hour ago, ACR_SCOUT said:

I was too busy having fun jumping out of airplanes and getting shot at.

Well Thank-You for doing so "ACR"...Can't ever repay you for your willingness to have done so.

They would have to shoot at me to get me to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

7 hours ago, John Morris said:

ACR, you done your time man! Don't think on it one second! 

enough is enough...

 

@Grandpadave52

There were a few times I thought the same thing.  But sometimes you just have to keep moving forward. If you gave me a parachute today I'd strap it on and take that step out the door without a problem.

 

Besides, I got paid a little extra.

50 minutes ago, ACR_SCOUT said:

Besides, I got paid a little extra.

Hoooorah!!!!

On a heartening note, the day my oldest daughter turned 18 in January of this year, she asked if I could go to the post office with her and pick up a selective service form. It was un-solicited, she just asked me to go with her out of the blue. I have opinions about women in the military, in combat, but hey, what could I say to my own kid, except, "I'll drive, and I'm proud of ya kid". Millennial's aint all bad.

5 minutes ago, John Morris said:

On a heartening note, the day my oldest daughter turned 18 in January of this year, she asked if I could go to the post office with her and pick up a selective service form. It was un-solicited, she just asked me to go with her out of the blue. I have opinions about women in the military, in combat, but hey, what could I say to my own kid, except, "I'll drive, and I'm proud of ya kid". Millennial's aint all bad.

Who's gonna sew those popped buttons back on? 

Congrats, dad.

11 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Who's gonna sew those popped buttons back on? 

Congrats, dad.

Adding on to it all, I am remembering what she said before we left to the Post Office, I told her, you know kid, you can do this online these days. And she said "Naaa, that's too easy dad, it just doesn't feel right".

Hoooorah!!!!!! A righteous mission is never easy!

3 minutes ago, John Morris said:

she said "Naaa, that's too easy dad, it just doesn't feel right".

And besides, she got to use the car

Just now, lew said:

And besides, she got to use the car

It's funny, at that time, hard to believe Lew, but she was not driving yet. She started to drive last spring, a couple months after her 18th birthday. Just never got around to it! I regret it to this day we did not start her earlier, our insurance is sky high! If we would have started her when she turned 16, our insurance would have come down by now, but hey, hind sight is what?

2 hours ago, John Morris said:

Hoooorah!!!!

 

Hooorah? USMC?  AIRBORNE HOOAA!

1 minute ago, ACR_SCOUT said:

AIRBORNE HOOAA!

Ya that too!

2 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Ya that too!

Cute.

 

34 minutes ago, ACR_SCOUT said:

Cute.

I try ACR, sometimes I fall flat.

6 hours ago, John Morris said:

Ya that too!