In May, I will hit my 37th birthday. That will be about 5 days short of 19 years since I filled out my Selective Service registration. Like many young adults my age, I received my registration information not long after. In the years intervening, I did not hear from the Selective Service.

Not in 1993, when I first attended college and had to verify my registration.

Not last fall, when I returned to college.

But in February, when I applied for Texas workforce grants to assist with my schooling, I received a call from the office. Seems my date and name had a mismatch.

It wasn't a big problem. I called their office, took care of it, and within a week had verification information to put on file.

Now today, I receive a Selective Service registration card. While it acknowledges I am too old "under current law" to be drafted, they advise that I keep the registration letter or the convenient card printed below anyway. Keep in mind many draft reinstatement proposals would extend the maximum age to 42.

Thankfully, I won't have much problem obtaining an exemption if I ever am drafted. But this flurry of selective service activity sounds like an agency "getting its ducks in a row". For what?

I look at it this way, though: if they DO reinstate the draft, I have a draft card ready to burn...lol!