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Originally Posted by Revert
I was 25..so i had no choice..
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realisticly speaking though, even if you're drafted (unlikely) by the time you would actually serve you would be too old to go on the front lines. You would probably go to support services, or be trained as a medic.
And yeah, going to prison in the US is probably more haram than serving your time in the military.
Mandatory military service is a difficult issue. Even the article Hanbali posted, it's not a black and white "if you do it, you're automatically a kaafir" kind of thing. It's not like you chose, you were forced. Not everyone has the option of leaving either. If you're faced with that situation, best to leave it to Allah (swt) as to whether or not your life time of Islam is negated by something which was out of your control.