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The Vietnam War draft were two lotteries conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of conscription to military service in the Vietnam War in 1970. It was the first time a lottery system had been used to select men for military service in the US since 1942, and established the ...
World War I draft card. Lower left corner to be removed by men of African ancestry in order to keep the military segregated. Following the U.S. declaration of war against Germany on 6 April, the Selective Service Act of 1917 (40 Stat. 76) was passed by the 65th United States Congress on 18 May 1917, creating the Selective Service System. [10]
The report recommends that the requirement for young men to register with the Selective Service System should be retained and should be expanded to include young women as well. [2] [3] The report also made various other recommendations with respect to the Selective Service System [21] and voluntary national and public (government) service.
There hasn’t been a draft in the U.S. since Jan. 27, 1973, when the Paris Peace Accords were signed, ending the Vietnam War. The Selective Service announced an end to the draft that same day.
The Selective Service System was first founded in 1917 to feed bodies into America's World War I efforts. It was disbanded in 1920, fired back up in 1940, re-formatted in 1948, and then terminated ...
The federal agency responsible for implementing a military draft, should the need arise, reposted a vulgar tweet Wednesday suggesting that the US is on a course reminiscent of Nazi Germany. “For ...
The local draft board is a board that administers and executes the main provisions of the Selective Service Act.Its functions comprise the registration, rejection and selection of men of military age as fixed by legislative enactment.
The Guardians were announced as the lottery winners, but Baseball America's J.J. Cooper reported that the Nationals' pingpong ball combinations actually came up for the first pick and the second pick: