"Draft" or Selective Service Registration info click here

The Resource center for Nonviolence is the GI RIGHTS HOTLINE Counseling Office for the "831" "408" & "805" area codes in the Northern and Mid-Coast areas of California -- Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara counties.

A phone call to the GI Rights Hotline, 800.394.9544, from any "831" 408" of "805" area code number is automatically routed to our trained and experienced counselors. The local "831" phone number is: 831.359.9292. If you get a voice mail response, leave a contact phone number and/or e-mail address; a counselor will contact you as soon as possible. If you are AWOL be be discrete about the information you leave.

Counselors on duty for phone calls 7 days a week, 10 hours a day. Personal counseling is available at other times and locations; make an appointment with your counselor.

If you are not in the military, and need counseling about military recruiters, "draft" registration with the Dept. of Selective Service, or conscientious objection to military service, go to our Draft & Military Alternative web page.

Find answers to many GI rights, discharge & legal process questions, or prepare for a counselor meeting by using these extensive and "friendly" links:

Click underline for access:
Military Discharges
~ Getting Out - Enlisted (GI Rights; regs & procedure)
~ Discharges - Web / Acrobat
~ Conscientious Objector Discharge from Military; Amer. Bar and UCMJ "How To
~ Enlisted - get an Honorable Conscientious Objector Discharge - the whole process
~ Regulations, GI Rights "Helping Out" Manual: Army / Navy / Marines / Air Force / Coast Guard / DOD, Department of Defense
~ Ft. Hood Army Guide for Handling Returning AWOLs to top

AWOL Tools
~ Military Privacy Release Form
~ Congress Member Client Intake & Release Form
~ Intention to Return to Command Letter for Absent Service Members (Microsoft Word)

FSTP Tools, Future Soldier Training Program (formerly Delayed Entry Program, DEP)Tools
~ Getting Out - FSTP (former DEP) (GI Rights: regs & procedures)
~ Separation Letter from FSTP (former DEP) (Microsoft Word) to top

Other Tools
~ Cal. Nat Guard policy - No involuntary deployment to Iraq more than once until Aug 2007 (Adobe .pdf)
~ UCMJ linked index / UCMJ .pdf / Court Martial Manual .pdf / Court Martial 2002 Update .pdf
~ Immigration - Military Service & Selective Service Registration
~ Selective Service System
~ Military Enlistment Contract (see 2nd page, sections 9-10)
~ The War Machine - facts & info about military service, the Iraq War, etc.
~ Leaving the Country, Information about...to top

HELP -- Other Experienced Counseling & Support Organizations
Military Law Task Force, National Lawyers Guild
313 Ortega St., San francisco, ca 94112
www.nlg.org/mltf
415.566.3732, Marti Hiken, Co-chair

Service Members Legal Defense
Counseling & legal service for GLBT military; help getting out or staying in.
PO Box 65301, Washington DC 20035-5301
202.328.3244 or 202.328.FAIR; Fax (202) 797-1635
http://www.sldn.org/templates/index.html
sldn@sldn.org

(National) G.I. Right Hotline (other than 831, 409 and 805 area codes)
http://www.girights.org/
800.394.9544 [Important counseling resource]
510.465.1617
405 14th St., #205, Oakland, CA 94612

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