WASHINGTON — The process the Pentagon uses to draft young men for war would be eliminated under a bill being introduced Thursday by several House lawmakers, including Colorado congressmen Mike Coffman and Jared Polis.

Their legislation would abolish the Selective Service System — which has gone unused for a draft since 1973 — and it could save taxpayers as much as $23 million annually. It also would render moot the recent question of whether women should be drafted.

“It outlived its usefulness a long time ago,” said Coffman, R-Aurora.

But the proposal would lock the U.S. Department of Defense into its current status as an all-volunteer force at a time when millennials are wary of fighting enemies such as the Islamic State.

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Lilah McCurry, 4, plays with her sister Lauralyn McCurry, 11 months, while waiting with her father 1st Lt. Taylor McCurry, left, mother Brandy McCurry, and sister Leena McCurry, 2, for the casing ceremony to begin Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, at Fort Carson for the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division soldiers who will deploy to Afghanistan before Christmas. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)