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The following list of Congressional legislation includes all acts of Congress pertaining to appointments to the grade of lieutenant general in the United States Army from 2000 to 2009. [ ah ] Each entry lists an act of Congress, its citation in the United States Statutes at Large , and a summary of the act's relevance, with officers affected by ...
The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered male (as legally defined by Executive Order 14168) 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 ...
[56] [57] The military relied upon draft-induced volunteerism to meet its quotas, especially for the Army, which accounted for nearly 95% of all inductees during the Vietnam War era. For example, defense recruiting reports show that 34% of the recruits in 1964, up to 50% in 1970, indicated that they had joined voluntarily in order to avoid ...
The draft is a hobby horse for Houlahan, an Air Force veteran. She also spearheaded a House bill in 2021 to require women to register with the Selective Service, effectively doubling the draft pool.
The claim: US military is requiring women to register for the draft. A June 16 Facebook post claims a new demographic is now legally required to register for the Selective Service. "The US ...
A US Army infantryman assigned to Foxtrot Company ‘Pathfinders’ 2nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, looks through his sights during M4 rifle reflexive fire range ...
Lewis Blaine Hershey (12 September 1893 – 20 May 1977) was a United States Army general who served as the 2nd Director of the Selective Service System, the means by which the United States administers its military conscription.
The Universal National Service Act of 2003 (H.R. 163, S. 89) was a bill to resume the military draft in the United States, introduced in the 2003 session of the United States House of Representatives. The bill would have provided that, as early as June 2005, young men and women ages 18–26 could be called to service.