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US Sends Military Draft Registration Notices to Men Born in the 1800s

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday July 13 2014, @07:30PM   
from the Millennium-Bul-Lives! dept.

cafebabe writes:

The BBC News reports that:

The agency that manages the dormant US military draft has apologised after sending conscription registration notices to men born in the late 1800s.

The Selective Service System (SSS) said the error occurred after a clerk neglected to select the century in a search for newly eligible young men.

It sent 14,250 notices to Pennsylvania men born 1893-97 in addition to 1993-97 before discovering the error.

Further:

Agency spokesman Pat Schuback said they did not catch the error because Pennsylvania used a two-digit code for the year of birth, meaning those born in 1893 and in 1993 had the same code.

"It's never happened before," Mr Schuback said.

Pennsylvania transport spokeswoman Jan McKnight said the error occurred when a clerk at the department, which manages driving licence information, transferred records to the SSS but forgot to select only the 20th Century.

• Obvious cause Obvious cause (Score: 4, Funny) by Thexalon on Sunday July 13 2014, @08:14PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Sunday July 13 2014, @08:14PM (#68634)

  If they hadn't fired Michael Bolton and Samir, Initech might have actually finished that Y2K update and prevented this!

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• Re:Obvious cause (Score: 3, Interesting) by mrcoolbp on Monday July 14 2014, @12:24AM

  by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@soylentnews.org> on Monday July 14 2014, @12:24AM (#68708) Homepage

  Bill: "So you fired him."

  Bob: "No, no, we fixed *the glitch*"

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