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Mental health- Exception to Draft?

2005-02-19, 10:51 AM #1

matrixhacker

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Would someone with a current diagnosed mental illness, schizophrenia, clinical depression, or etc, be exempt from the military draft if there was one? I'm not sure, but I think I read somewhere that you're only exempt if you're currently in an institution, but why would they want a person who may have a current mental illness out there in the field?

2005-02-19, 11:06 AM #2

Krokodile

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I'm not in America, so I can only say that in Finland they would...theoretically. More often than not the military service is merely postponed, and if the person is still not mentally fit to serve, they postpone again.

Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.

2005-02-19, 11:11 AM #3

SideBurns

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I'm pretty sure you would be excempt, although I'm not 100% positive.

2005-02-19, 11:23 AM #4

Daeron the Nerfherder

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I doubt that someone with psychological problems would be picked for active frontline duty. Unless they're really desperate or just pulling names out of a hat without even screening them.

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Baldrick: I have a plan, sir.
Blackadder: Really, Baldrick, a cunning and subtle one?
Baldrick: Yes, sir.
Blackadder: As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?
Baldrick: Yes, sir.
*On the signal, company will advance*
Blackadder: Well, I'm afraid it's too late. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would've noticed another madman around here?
*distant whistle*
Blackadder: Good luck everyone.
*blows his whistle, all climb over the top*

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2005-02-19, 11:37 AM #5

Wookie06

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It would probably depend on how well the diagnosis was documented. There would obviously have to be substance to it in order for it to be clear that the person was not simply trying to get out of the draft.

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2005-02-19, 11:51 AM #6

Bobbert

The Super-Spy That Wasn't

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Klinger couldn't get out because of insanity.

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2005-02-19, 1:16 PM #7

Wuss

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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of the clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka replied.

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