Re:draft (Score 1)

There has been intense speculation (fueled by the release of Selective Service planning documents) that a future draft will come in the form of "special skills" drafts. The military faces a shortage of troops with specialized medical, technical, and linguistic skills that would not be met by a lottery based draft of the general 18-25 population.

Plans have been drawn up for a draft of health-care workers should the military become too overwhelmed with casualties. You can bet there are similar plans for pilots and others with highly trained skills, including some IT professionals.

If Selective Service could easily run reports such as "give me everyone under 35 with a BA or higher in Comp Sci or MidEast studies who graduated with at least a 2.5 GPA", I'm sure this would be incorporated into draft planning. Whether or not that is the primary intention of this proposed database, it would be foolish to believe that such a database would never be used in this way.