] WASHINGTON -- The government is taking the first steps
] toward a targeted military draft of Americans with
] special skills in computers and foreign languages.
]
] Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is adamant that he will
] not ask Congress to authorize a draft, and officials at
] the Selective Service System, the independent federal
] agency that would organize any conscription, stress that
] the possibility of a so-called "special skills draft" is
] remote.
]
] Nonetheless, the agency has begun the process of creating
] the procedures and policies to conduct such a targeted
] draft in case military officials ask Congress to
] authorize it and the lawmakers agree to such a request.
]
] "Talking to the manpower folks at the Department of
] Defense and others, what came up was that nobody foresees
] a need for a large conventional draft such as we had in
] Vietnam," said Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the
] Selective Service System. "But they thought that if we
] have any kind of a draft, it will probably be a special
] skills draft."

Computers? No, I don't know anything about computers. And I only speak English. Really. I forgot everything I learned in college.

Agency initiates steps for selective draft