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The Selective Service System ( SSS) 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 ...
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L. 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, [1] was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. This Selective Service Act required that men who had reached their 21st birthday but had not yet reached their 36th birthday ...
In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The fourth incarnation of the draft came into being in 1940, through the Selective ...
The military draft - officially known as the Selective Service System - requires nearly all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants ages 18 to 25 to register with the government, in accordance with ...
RELATED: US military draft: Bill would require women to register for Selective Service. The few individuals who are exempt from registering include: Non-immigrant men on a valid student, visitor ...
Congress and the president can reinstate the draft and force male citizens to serve in the military in the event of a national emergency or war that all-volunteer military can't adequately support.
An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States. The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act ( Pub. L. 65–12, 40 Stat. 76, enacted May 18, 1917) authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called the provision requiring women to sign up for the draft “insane.”. He accused the Biden administration of trying to implement a woke agenda at the Pentagon ...