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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 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 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 ...
Change of name to the Military Selective Service Act and extension until July 1, 1973, by Pub. L. 92–129, 85 Stat. 348, enacted September 28, 1971; In 2019, U.S. District Court in Southern Texas Judge Gray Miller ruled in National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System that exempting women from the male-only draft was unconstitutional. [1]
In Iran, men who refuse to go to military service are deprived of their citizenship rights, such as employment, health insurance, [239] continuing their education at university, [240] finding a job, going abroad, opening a bank account, [241] etc. [242] Iranian men have so far opposed mandatory military service and demanded that military ...
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 ...
On April 27, 1942, the fourth registration was held nationwide, which encompassed men from the ages of 45 to 64 (i.e., born between April 27, 1877, and February 16, 1897), earning it the nickname of "The Old Man's Draft." Unlike the earlier registrations, its purpose was indirect; the individuals were not actually liable for military service.
[4] Selective Service registrants likely to be drafted were ineligible, with the ASC recruiting men over the age of thirty years old, those that had a III-A Selective Service classification (registrant deferred because of hardship to dependents) or men under thirty years old categorized as IV-F (registrant ineligible for service for, among ...
The Selective Service is the federal agency tasked with overseeing a national database of US male citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 who could be subject to the draft should it be necessary.