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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 ...
President Jimmy Carter reinstated the Selective Service System with Proclamation 4771, July 2, 1980. According to current Selective Service regulations, all American males between the ages of 18 and 26 are eligible for service. Failure to register within 30 days of a person's 18th birthday may result in five years imprisonment or a $250,000 fine.
An Act to provide for the common defense by increasing the strength of the armed forces of the United States, including the reserve components thereof, and for other purposes. Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981) The Selective Service Act of 1948, also known as the Elston Act, was a United States federal law enacted June 24, 1948, that ...
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 Army Reserve, the Selected Reserve (SR) is the component of the Reserve most readily available for call-up to active duty. (The other Reserve components are the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) and the Retired Reserve.) The Selected Reserve is composed of Troop Program Units (TPUs), Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) Soldiers ...
The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 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. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson 's ...
United States Volunteersalso known as U.S. Volunteers, U.S. Volunteer Army, or other variations of these, were military volunteerscalled upon during wartime to assist the United States Armybut who were separate from both the Regular Armyand the militia. Until the enactment of the Militia Act of 1903, the land forces of the United States were ...
Conscription is the state-mandated enrollment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. [ 1 ] Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscription for young men dates to the French Revolution in the 1790s, where ...