Listen up ladies! Uncle Sam might want you too

Airman Basic Amy Ting 'low-crawls' on the U.S. Air Force basic military training confidence course February 18, 2002 at Lackland Fir Force Base in Texas. After completing six weeks of conditioning, she graduated from basic military …
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Posted: 02/25/2013

By: RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Tennnnnn-hut ladies!

The next time Uncle Sam comes calling, he's probably going to want you, too.

The Obama administration recently decided to lift the ban on women in combat. Legal experts and military historians say that decision has opened the door for a change in the law that currently compels only men between age 18 and 25 to register for a military draft.

Never before have women been drafted into military service. Neither the White House nor Congress are in a hurry to make them register for a future call-up.

A draft would be enormously unpopular and adding women to the mix just isn't a priority for a battle-weary country nearing the end of more than a decade of war. Yet, legally, there may be no other choice.