The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)

Some Defense Department officials are ready to exploit Charlie Kirk’s death.

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September 18, 2025 / Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The New Republic -  Top U.S. military leaders are considering a new recruitment strategy that would leverage Charlie Kirk’s legacy and memory to draw more of America’s youth into the armed services.

The Pentagon would frame the drive as a “national call to service,” according to U.S. officials who spoke with NBC News. Possible slogans for the recruitment effort include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors.”

The enlistment strategy could potentially involve Turning Point USA, Kirk’s political organization, morphing it into recruitment centers. “That could include inviting recruiters to be present at events or advertising for the military at the chapters,” NBC reported that two defense officials explained.

There are some 900 official college chapters and around 1,200 high school chapters of Turning Point USA across the nation, but the conservative advocacy nonprofit received more than 54,000 inquiries for new campus chapters in the 48 hours after Kirk’s assassination, according to TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet.

 The House won’t get to vote on this proposal to end Selective Service.

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Tuesday, 9 September 2025 / Edward Hasbrouck / Edward Hasbrouck's blog - Early this morning, after overnight behind-the-scenes discussions, the Rules Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to propose a rule for House floor consideration of this year’s National Defense [sic] Authorization Act (NDAA) that leaves the proposal for attempted automatic registration of young men for a possible military draft in the version of the NDAA to be debated and voted on by the full House, and prevents any debate or vote on the “automatic” registration proposal or the alternate proposal to end draft registration.

The House Rules Committee recommended “making in order” for House floor debate and vote almost 300 amendments to the NDAA, but not the bipartisan amendment to replace the provision to try to automate draft registration with a provision to repeal the Military Selective Service Act, end draft registration, and abolish the Selective Service System. (Scroll down here for the list of amendments submitted to the Rules Committee and those made in order for floor debate and votes.) There was no public discussion by the Rules Committee of any of the proposals with respect to Selective Service.