74-748: The Selective Service Act of 1948 , also known as the Elston Act , was a United States federal law enacted June 24, 1948, that established the current implementation of the Selective Service System . The previous iteration of the Selective Service System was established by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 . After two extensions, the Selective Training and Service Act was allowed to expire on March 31, 1947. In 1948, it
148-471: A 2-D Selective Service classification. Men who were not classifiable as eligible for service due to a disqualification were classified 1-N . Men who are incapable of serving for medical or psychological unfitness are classified 4-F . Upon completion of military service the classification of 4-A was assigned. Draft classifications of 1-A were changed to 1-H (registrant not currently subject to processing for induction) for men not selected for service after
222-623: A Democratic majority. In the House, the Republicans had actually won a plurality, but as the Progressives and Socialist Representative Meyer London caucused with the Democrats, this gave them the operational majority of the nearly evenly divided chamber, thus giving the Democrats full control of Congress, and along with President Wilson maintaining an overall federal government trifecta . Because of
296-506: A belief that Black men were not brave enough. As such, the U.S. Army in particular did not form many divisions out of the Black men drafted, which limited the number of African-Americans subject to the draft. As a result of these practices, in early 1943 African-Americans made up 10.6% of the American population, but only 6% of the men serving in the military. The issue of conscientious objectors
370-728: A bipartisan group of senators, including Rand Paul , Ron Wyden , and Cynthia Lummis , introduced legislation to end the military draft, calling it outdated and unnecessary. The bill aimed to repeal the Military Selective Service Act, which hasn't been used since the Vietnam War . The move followed debates on including women in the draft, a proposal repeatedly removed from the National Defense Authorization Act despite rising program costs. Selective Service System The Selective Service System ( SSS )
444-399: A conscientious objector (CO) to war when registering, but they can make such a claim when being drafted. Some people choose to write on the registration card "I am a conscientious objector to war" to document their conviction, even though the government will not have such a classification until there is a draft. A number of private organizations have programs for conscientious objectors to file
518-460: A critical need, without regard to age or sex". During 2018 and 2019, the commission held both public and closed-door meetings with members of the public and invited experts and other witnesses. In February 2019, a challenge to the Military Selective Service Act, which provides for the male-only draft, by the National Coalition for Men , was deemed unconstitutional by Judge Gray H. Miller in
592-425: A draft card, and routine checks requiring identification virtually never include a request for a draft card. As an alternative method of encouraging or coercing registration, Solomon Amendment laws were passed requiring that in order to receive financial aid, federal grants and loans, certain government benefits, eligibility for most federal employment, and (if the person is an immigrant) eligibility for citizenship,
666-669: A few days later against Nazi Germany , the service period was subsequently extended in early 1942 to last for the duration of the war, plus a six-month service in the Organized Reserves. Until late 1942, both the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps relied only on volunteers and all those drafted prior to late 1942 went only to the Army or the Army Air Corps. Of those called up for service during the war, nearly 2 million Americans were rejected by
740-664: A meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives . It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1917, to March 4, 1919, during the fifth and sixth years of Woodrow Wilson 's presidency . The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census . The Senate maintained
814-467: A preliminary field exercise in fiscal year 1998, followed by a more extensive nationwide readiness exercise in fiscal year 1999. The HCPDS plans include women and men age 20–54 in 57 job categories. Until their 26th birthdays, registered men must notify Selective Service within 10 days of any changes to information regarding their status, such as name, current mailing address , permanent residence address, and "all information concerning his status... which
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#1732856174695888-570: A service period of 12 months. As of mid-November 1917, all registrants were placed in one of five new classifications. Men in Class I were the first to be drafted, and men in lower classifications were deferred. Dependency deferments for registrants who were fathers or husbands were especially widespread. The age limit was later raised in August 1918 to a maximum age of 45. The military draft was discontinued in 1920. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
962-508: A service period of 12 months. In 1941, the military service period was extended to 18 months; later that year the age bracket was increased to include men aged 18 to 37. In 1940, the act had registered 16 million men between the ages of 21-36. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the subsequent declarations of war by the United States against the Empire of Japan and
1036-486: A similar provision to its version of the bill. If the bill including this provision had been enacted into law, it would have authorized (but not require) the president to order young women as well as young men to register with the Selective Service System. The House-Senate conference committee for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 removed the provision of the House version of
1110-415: A special-skills draft based on professional licensing lists of workers in specified health care occupations. In the event of either type of draft, the Selective Service System would send out induction notices, adjudicate claims for deferments or exemptions, and assign draftees classified as conscientious objectors to alternative service work. All male U.S. citizens and immigrant non-citizens who are between
1184-676: A term of four years or the Organized Reserves for a term of six years. Due to deep postwar budget cuts, only 100,000 conscripts were chosen in 1948. In 1950, the number of conscripts was greatly increased to meet the demands of the Korean War (1950–1953). The outbreak of the Korean War fostered the creation of the Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1951. This lowered the draft age from 19 to 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 , increased active-duty service time from 21 to 24 months, and set
1258-523: A written record stating their beliefs. In 1987, Congress ordered the Selective Service System to put in place a system capable of drafting "persons qualified for practice or employment in a health care occupation " in case such a special-skills draft should be ordered by Congress. In response, the Selective Service published plans for the "Health Care Personnel Delivery System" (HCPDS) in 1989, and has had them ready ever since. The concept underwent
1332-415: A young man had to be registered (or had to have been registered, if they are over 26 but were required to register between 18 and 26) with the Selective Service. Those who were required to register, but failed to do so before they turned 26, are no longer allowed to register, and thus may be permanently barred from federal jobs and other benefits, unless they can show to the Selective Service that their failure
1406-442: Is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered male U.S. citizens and other U.S. residents potentially subject to military conscription (i.e., the draft). Although the U.S. military is currently an all-volunteer force, registration is still required for contingency planning and preparation for two types of draft: a general draft based on registration lists of males aged 18–25, and
1480-565: Is constitutional on the basis that "only the Supreme Court may revise its precedent." A congressionally mandated commission recommended in March 2020 that women should be eligible for the draft. In September 2021, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 , which included an amendment that stated that "all Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 must register for selective service." This struck off
1554-553: The 17th Amendment , starting in 1914 U.S. senators were directly elected instead of by the state legislatures. However, this did not affect the terms of U.S. senators whose terms had started before that Amendment took effect, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1918; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1920; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1922. The count below reflects changes from
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#17328561746951628-590: The Fund for Education and Training (FEAT) and Student Aid Fund for Non-registrants . Some registrants are not U.S. citizens, or have dual nationality of the U.S. and another country; they fall instead into one of the following categories: The Selective Service System is authorized by the Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution which says Congress "shall have Power To... provide for calling forth
1702-511: The Selective Service Act of 1917 (40 Stat. 76) was passed by the 65th United States Congress on May 18, 1917, creating the Selective Service System. President Woodrow Wilson signed the act into law after the U.S. Army failed to meet its target of expanding to 1 million men after six weeks. The act gave the president the power to conscript men for military service. All men aged 21 to 30 were required to enlist for military service for
1776-518: The U.S. airstrike on Baghdad International Airport . An Internet meme about the event being the beginning of World War III began gaining in popularity very quickly, causing an influx of visitors to the Selective Service System website, which was not prepared to handle it. Under current law, all male U.S. citizens between 18 and 25 (inclusive) years of age are required to register within 30 days of their 18th birthdays. In addition, certain categories of non-U.S. citizen men between 18 and 25 living in
1850-718: The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas . Miller's opinion was based on the Supreme Court 's past argument in Rostker v. Goldberg (1981) which had found the male-only draft constitutional because the military then did not allow women to serve. As the Department of Defense has since lifted most restrictions on women in the military, Miller ruled that the justifications no longer apply, and thus
1924-458: The United States House of Representatives on February 10, 2016. H.R. 4523 would end draft registration and eliminate the authority of the president to order anyone to register for the draft, abolish the Selective Service System, and effectively repeal the "Solomon Amendments" making registration for the draft a condition of federal student aid, jobs, and job training. The bill would leave in place, however, laws in some states making registration for
1998-407: The "Solomon Amendment", which requires applicants for Federal student aid to certify that they have complied with draft registration, either by having registered or by not being required to register; Wayte v. United States , 470 U.S. 598 (1985), upholding the policies and procedures which the Supreme Court thought the government had used to select the "most vocal" non-registrants for prosecution, after
2072-837: The FAFSA form were eliminated on July 1, 2023. Most states, as well as the District of Columbia , Guam , Northern Mariana Islands , and Virgin Islands , have passed laws requiring registration for men 18–25 to be eligible for programs that vary on a per-jurisdiction basis but typically include driver's licenses, state-funded higher education benefits, and state government jobs. Alaska also requires registration to receive an Alaska Permanent Fund dividend. Eleven states (California, Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming) have no such requirements, though Indiana and Washington do give men 18–25
2146-500: The Military Selective Service Act of 1967 that established conscription based on random selection (lottery). The first draft lottery was held on December 1, 1969; it determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950. The highest lottery number called for possible induction was 195. The second lottery, on July 1, 1970, pertained to men born in 1951. The highest lottery number called for possible induction
2220-764: The Militia to execute the Laws of the Union;" The Selective Service Act is the law which established the Selective Service System under these provisions. The act has been challenged in light of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which prohibits " involuntary servitude ". These challenges, however, have not been supported by the courts; as the Supreme Court stated in Butler v. Perry (1916): The amendment
2294-531: The SSS using their Social Security Number and the sex designation associated with that number. It is possible to change the sex associated with a Social Security Number (SSN), and the Social Security Administration (SSA) does not require medical or legal evidence of a sex designation to do so. However, despite some states now allowing an "X" designation on official identification, like birth certificates,
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2368-428: The Selective Service registration requirement for all 18- to 26-year-old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960. As a result, only men born between March 29, 1957, and December 31, 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration. The first registrations after Proclamation 4771 took place at various post offices across the nation on July 21, 1980, for men born in calendar year 1960. Pursuant to
2442-432: The Selective Service. All men between the ages of 18 and 25 were eligible to be drafted for a service requirement of 21 months. This was followed by a commitment for either 12 consecutive months of active service or 36 consecutive months of service in the reserves, with a statutory term of military service set at a minimum of five years total. Conscripts could volunteer for military service in the regular United States Army for
2516-482: The U.S. Army was forced to take remedial work. During the course of the war, 25,000 Army dentists pulled 15 million rotten teeth and placed 2.5 million sets of dentures while Army optometrists fitted 2.25 million men with eyeglasses. Nearly a million men took educational courses to teach them how to read and write. In November 1942, Congress passed the Tydings Amendment which exempted all agricultural workers from
2590-440: The U.S. military practiced segregation during the war as Black Americans did not serve alongside men of other races and in practice Black men were only drafted to keep the all Black units of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Army Air Force up to strength. Furthermore, the military as a general rule preferred to use Black servicemen only in menial roles and as much as possible tried to avoid sending African-Americans into combat out of
2664-415: The United States must register, particularly permanent residents , refugees , asylum seekers , and illegal immigrants . Foreign men lawfully present in the United States who are non-immigrants, such as international students , visitors , and diplomats, are not required to register, so long as they remain in that status. If an alien's non-immigrant status lapses while he is in the United States and under
2738-438: The act is proving a violation of the act was intentional, i.e. knowing and willful. In the opinion of legal experts, this is almost impossible to prove unless there is evidence of a prospective defendant knowing about his obligation to register and intentionally choosing not to do so. Or, for example, when there is evidence the government at any time provided notice to the prospective defendant to register or report for induction, he
2812-479: The act requiring only men to register would now be considered unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause . The government appealed this decision to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Oral arguments on the appeal were heard on March 3, 2020. The District Court decision was reversed by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. A petition for review was declined by the U.S. Supreme Court. In December 2019,
2886-662: The act since 1948 include: In 2019, U.S. District Court in Southern Texas Judge Gray Miller ruled in National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System that exempting women from the male-only draft was unconstitutional. This ruling was later reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit , and the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the case. In 2024,
2960-400: The age of 26, he will be required to register. Failure to register as required is grounds for denying a petition for U.S. citizenship. Currently, citizens who are at least 17 years and 3 months old can pre-register so when they are eligible for registration, their information will automatically be added into the system. In the current registration system, a person cannot indicate that they are
3034-588: The ages of 18 and 25 are required by law to have registered within 30 days of their 18th birthdays, and must notify the Selective Service within ten days of any changes to any of the information they provided on their registration cards, such as a change of address. The Selective Service System is a contingency mechanism for the possibility that conscription becomes necessary. Registration with Selective Service may be required for various federal programs and benefits, including job training, federal employment, and naturalization . The Selective Service System provides
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3108-562: The beginning of the first session of this Congress. Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. On
3182-403: The bill that would have authorized the president to order women as well as men to register with the Selective Service System, but added a new section to create a " National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service " (NCMNPS). This provision was enacted into law on December 23, 2016 as Subtitle F of Public Law 114–328. The commission was to study and make recommendations by March 2020 on
3256-449: The bipartisan "Selective Service Repeal Act", a bill to repeal the Military Selective Service Act and abolish the Selective Service System, H.R. 5492, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Rodney Davis (R-IL). This bill was reintroduced in both the House (H.R. 2509) and the Senate (S. 1139) on April 14, 2021. In January 2020, the Selective Service System website crashed following
3330-402: The calendar year they were eligible for the draft. (These – and other – draft classifications were in place long before 1971.) Also, draft board membership requirements were reformed: minimum age of board members was dropped from 30 to 18, members over 65 or who had served on the board for 20 or more years had to retire, and membership had to proportionally reflect the ethnic and cultural makeup of
3404-475: The case in World War One.. About 75,000 Americans called for national service claimed conscientious objector status, and about half of these claims were accepted by the draft boards. Married men were exempt from the draft and in late 1940 about 40% called up for the draft were able to evade it by promptly getting married. In February 1942, General Hershey, who was in charge of the draft, complained "that most of
3478-572: The classifying authority mails him a request therefor". Selective Service bases the registration requirement on gender at birth. According to the SSS, individuals who were born male are required to register regardless of their current gender identity or gender reassignment. This includes transgender women . People who are born female who have transitioned, or are in the process of transitioning ( transgender men ), are not required to register. Individuals who identify as non-binary are required to register if they were born male. U.S. citizens register for
3552-474: The current SSN system is only designed for male or female designations. The SSA is looking into more diverse designation options for the future. In February 2019, the male-only military draft registry was ruled to be unconstitutional by a federal district judge in National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System . Following the ruling, Selective Service System attorney Jacob Daniels told reporters: "Things continue here at Selective Service as they have in
3626-591: The draft a condition of some state benefits. On June 9, 2016, a similar bill was introduced in the United States Senate , called the "Muhammad Ali Voluntary Service Act". On April 27, 2016, the House Armed Services Committee voted to add an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 to extend the authority for draft registration to women. On May 12, 2016, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to add
3700-568: The draft as required, signed Proclamation 4360 (Terminating Registration Procedures Under Military Selective Service Act), eliminating the registration requirement for all 18- to 25-year-old male citizens. On July 2, 1980, President Jimmy Carter , signed Proclamation 4771 (Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act) in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the previous year of 1979, retroactively re-establishing
3774-497: The draft boards for "neuropsychiatic reasons". The most common "neuropsychiatic reason" was homosexuality, which was a considered to be a very serious mental illness in the 1940s and as such the military refused to accept homosexuals. Another four million American men called for national service were rejected for either medical or educational reasons, such as being near-sighted, having rotten teeth or being illiterate. As too many men were being rejected for health or educational reasons,
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#17328561746953848-449: The draft, draft registration, registration of women, and "the feasibility and advisability of modifying the military selective service process in order to obtain for military, national, and public service individuals with skills (such as medical, dental, and nursing skills, language skills, cyber skills, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills) for which the Nation has
3922-499: The draft, thereby exempting 2 million American men from serving in the war. The question of drafting Black men caused much controversy as President Franklin D. Roosevelt had promised several African-American civil rights leaders in 1940 that the draft would be a color-blind one and in fact the Selective Service Act of 1940 stated "there shall be no discrimination against any person on the account of race or color". However,
3996-498: The executive order went into effect were still exempt. President Ronald Reagan revoked both of them with Executive Order 12553 (signed on February 25, 1986). The Military Selective Service Act of 1967 expanded the ages of conscription to the ages of 18 to 55. It still granted student deferments, but ended them upon either the student's completion of a four-year degree or his 24th birthday, whichever came first. On November 26, 1969, President Richard Nixon signed an amendment to
4070-401: The government refused to comply with discovery orders by the trial court to produce documents and witnesses related to the selection of non-registrants for prosecution; and Elgin v. Department of Treasury , 567 U.S. 1 (2012), regarding procedures for judicial review of denial of federal employment for non-registrants. 65th United States Congress The 65th United States Congress was
4144-543: The local community. On January 27, 1973, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced the creation of an all-volunteer armed forces, negating the need for the military draft. The seventh and final lottery drawing was held on March 12, 1975, pertaining to men born in 1956, who would have been called to report for induction in 1976. But no new draft orders were issued after 1972. On March 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford , whose own son, Steven , had earlier failed to register for
4218-676: The names of all registrants to the Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies ( JAMRS ) program for inclusion in the JAMRS Consolidated Recruitment Database. The names are distributed to the Services for recruiting purposes on a quarterly basis. Regulations are codified at Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations , Chapter XVI. Following the U.S. declaration of war against Germany on April 6,
4292-569: The next several years, however, such legislation was never passed. President John F. Kennedy set up Executive Order 11119 (signed on September 10, 1963), granting an exemption from conscription for married men between the ages of 19 and 26. His vice president and later successor as president, Lyndon B. Johnson , later rescinded the exemption for married men without children by Executive Order 11241 (signed on August 26, 1965 and going into effect on midnight of that date). However, married men with children or other dependents and men married before
4366-460: The option of registering with Selective Service when obtaining a driver's license or an identification card. The Department of Motor Vehicles of 27 states and 2 territories automatically register young men 18–25 with the Selective Service whenever they apply for driver licenses, learner permits, or non-driver identification cards. There are some third-party organized efforts to compensate financial aid for those students losing benefits, including
4440-437: The past, which is men between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to register with Selective Service. And at this time, until we receive guidance from either the court or from Congress, women are not required to register for Selective Service." On August 13, 2020, the federal district judge's opinion was unanimously overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The Court held that male-only military draft registration
4514-416: The presidential proclamation, all those men born in 1960 were required to register that week. Men born in 1961 were required to register the following week. Men born in 1962 were required to register during the week beginning January 5, 1981. Men born in 1963 and after were required to register within 30 days before or after their 18th birthday. A bill to abolish the Selective Service System was introduced in
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#17328561746954588-448: The recent marriages...might have been for the purpose of evading the draft". In his 1945 State of the Union address , President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that the draft be expanded to include female nurses (male nurses were not allowed), to overcome a shortage that was endangering military medical care. This began a debate over the drafting of all women, which was defeated in the House of Representatives. A bill to draft nurses
4662-490: The reinstatement of draft registration in 1980, the Supreme Court has heard and decided four cases related to the Military Selective Service Act: Rostker v. Goldberg , 453 U.S. 57 (1981), upholding the constitutionality of requiring men but not women to register for the draft; Selective Service v. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG) , 468 U.S. 841 (1984), upholding the constitutionality of
4736-757: The state, such as services in the army, militia, on the jury, etc. During the First World War, the Supreme Court ruled in Arver v. United States (1918), also known as the Selective Draft Law Cases , that the draft did not violate the Constitution. Later, during the Vietnam War, a federal appellate court concluded in Holmes v. United States (1968) that the draft was constitutional even during peacetime. Since
4810-425: The statutory term of military service at a minimum of eight years. Students attending a college or training program full-time could request an exemption, which was extended as long as they were students. A Universal Military Training clause was inserted that would have made all men obligated to perform 12 months of military service and training if the act was amended by later legislation. Despite successive attempts over
4884-630: The word "Male" which extended a potential draft to women; however, the amendment was removed before the National Defense Authorization Act was passed. In 1980, men who knew they were required to register and did not do so could face up to five years in prison, fines of up to $ 50,000 or both if convicted. The potential fine was later increased to $ 250,000. Despite these possible penalties, government records indicate that from 1980 through 1986 there were only twenty indictments, of which nineteen were instigated in part by self-publicized and self-reported non-registration. A principal element for conviction under
4958-686: Was 125. The third was on August 5, 1971, pertaining to men born in 1952; the highest lottery number called was 95. In 1971, the Military Selective Service Act was further amended to make registration compulsory; all men had to register within a period 30 days before and 29 days after their 18th birthdays. Registrants were classified 1-A (eligible for military service), 1-AO ( conscientious objector available for non-combatant military service), and 1-O (conscientious objector available for alternate community service). Student deferments were ended, except for divinity students , who received
5032-792: Was a controversial one during the war.. In World War One, only the so-called "peace churches", namely the Mennonites, the Quakers and the Brethren had been allowed to reject national service on grounds of conscience.. The 1940 Selective Service Act allowed the same exemption to the "peace churches", but also allowed anyone "who, by reason of religious training or belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form". In practice, draft boards would exempt anyone who prove they were opposed to war on grounds of some sort of religious belief, which allowed more to claim conscientious objectors status than been
5106-468: Was adopted with reference to conditions existing since the foundation of our government, and the term 'involuntary servitude' was intended to cover those forms of compulsory labor akin to African slavery which, in practical operation, would tend to produce like undesirable results. It introduced no novel doctrine with respect of services always treated as exceptional, and certainly was not intended to interdict enforcement of those duties which individuals owe to
5180-569: Was given an opportunity to comply, and the prospective defendant chose not to do so. The last prosecution for non-registration was in January 1986. In interviews published in U.S. News & World Report in May 2016, current and former Selective Service System officials said that in 1988, the Department of Justice and Selective Service agreed to suspend any further prosecutions of non-registrants. No law since 1980 has required anyone to possess, carry, or show
5254-485: Was not knowing and willful. There is a procedure to provide an "information letter" to the Selective Service for those in these situations, for example recent citizens who entered the U.S. after their 26th birthday. The federal law requiring Selective Service registration as a condition of federal financial aid for higher education was overridden in December 2020, and the questions about Selective Service registration status on
5328-520: Was passed by Congress on September 16, 1940, establishing the first peacetime conscription in United States history. It required all men between the ages of 18 and 64 to register with the Selective Service. To register, men typically completed a D.S.S. Form 1 Military Draft Registration Card from the Director of Selective Service. Over 49 million draft cards were completed, including The Old Man's Draft . It originally conscripted all men aged 21 to 35 for
5402-481: Was passed by the House, but died without a vote in the Senate. The publicity caused more nurses to volunteer and agencies streamlined recruiting. The Selective Service System created by the 1940 act was terminated by the act of 31 March 1947. The Selective Service Act of 1948 , enacted in June of that year, created a new and separate system, the basis for the modern system. All men 18 years and older had to register with
5476-473: Was replaced by a new and distinct Selective Service System established by this Act. The Selective Service Act of 1948 was originally intended to remain in effect for two years (i.e., until June 24, 1950), but was extended multiple times, usually immediately before its two-year period of effectiveness was due to expire. Provisions of the law relating to the authority to induct men into the military expired on July 1, 1973. Amendments, extensions, and changes of name to
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