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  2. Selective Service System - Wikipedia

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    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 April 6, 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. [10]

  3. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 - Wikipedia

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    The first peacetime conscription in the United States, the act required all American men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register and be placed in order for call to military service determined by a national lottery. If drafted, a man served on active duty for 12 months, and then in a reserve component for 10 years, until he reached the age of ...

  4. Conscription in the United States - Wikipedia

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    From a pool of approximately 27 million, the draft raised 2,215,000 men for military service (in the United States, South Vietnam, and elsewhere) during the Vietnam War era. The majority of service members deployed to South Vietnam were volunteers, even though [ clarification needed ] hundreds of thousands of men opted to join the Army, Air ...

  5. Internet confuses people over US military draft change ... - AOL

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    Congress has not voted to make US women eligible for conscription, and nor has it resolved to automatically enroll all young American men into the military draft database – at least, not yet.

  6. Selective Service Act of 1917 - Wikipedia

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    Uncle Sam pointing his finger at the viewer in order to recruit soldiers for the American Army during World War I, 1917-1918 Sheet music cover for patriotic song, 1917. 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.

  7. House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men ... - AOL

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    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.

  8. Tell it to the Marine: No draft, "limited" or otherwise - AOL

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    Aug. 8—"Today," Lt. Colonel Joe Plenzler (USMC, retired) writes at Military.com, "the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs.

  9. Military Selective Service Act - Wikipedia

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    This ruling was later reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, [2] [3] and the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the case. [4] In 2024, a bipartisan group of senators, including Rand Paul, Ron Wyden, and Cynthia Lummis, introduced legislation to end the military draft, calling it outdated and ...