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Antiwar.com (blog)
April 8, 2018
The Commission needs to hear from men who didn't register for the draft when they were supposed to do so, men who registered but have moved without telling the Selective Service System their new address, men who are registered but would refuse to go if they were drafted, parents who would tear upÃâà...
Buffalo News
April 7, 2018
Trump's deferments reveal a lot about him. A recent contributor to this column should have checked his facts before he questioned why our former president had not served in any branch of the service. On Dec. 1, 1969, the Selective Service System conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call toÃâà...
Westlake | Bay Village Observer
April 3, 2018
Fighting on the Western Front did not end until Germany signed the Armistice agreement, in Paris, at 11:00 a.m., on Nov. 11, 1918. Troops began to look forward to returning home and the Selective Service System for World War I was terminated on July 15, 1919. Why is the Selective Service Registration ofÃâà...
Slate Magazine
April 3, 2018
Sporadic calls for bringing back conscription—the draft—to relieve the stress on the military and avoid too much privatization have generally fallen on deaf ears. (The selective service system, the administrative backbone of the draft, remains active, although the draft itself was terminated as the Vietnam WarÃâà...
Law360
March 31, 2018
Law360 (March 30, 2018, 5:32 PM EDT) -- A New Jersey federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action challenging the military draft's male-only requirement, ruling Thursday that the suing woman could have plausibly suffered an injury when she wasn't allowed to register because of her sex. In rejecting aÃâà...
InsideSources
March 25, 2018
At the age of 18, all males must register for the draft under the Selective Service System, and Americans become eligible to join the military at 18. Is it fair that the U.S. government can force an 18-year-old male to wield a weapon but then prevent that same individual from buying a weapon? Likewise, is itÃâà...
MyStatesman.com
March 23, 2018
As a Vietnam veteran, I believe the U.S. should expand the Selective Service System to include men, women, LBGT — everyone. It would not have to be primarily military training, but include health, education and disaster response preparation. This public service should be required before anyone couldÃâà...
KGO-TV
March 23, 2018
The Selective Service System does mail a reminder to make sure 18 year old men register. By law, they must register within 30 days of their birthday. You can register with the Selective Service System by mail or online. It will ask for your name, address, date of birth, and social security number (if registeringÃâà...
The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle
March 22, 2018
... Varela learned that males aged 18-25 are required to register for the Selective Service, which maintains a list of the draft-eligible population, in order to qualify for federal programs, including federal student loans, job training and security clearance, according to the Selective Service System website.
The Register
March 21, 2018
Among the various aspects of the US Selective Service System being re-evaluated is whether it might make sense to change the process to ensure that individuals with technical skills needed for national defense – medical, language, cyber, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)Ãâà...
MyStatesman.com
March 20, 2018
As a Vietnam veteran, I believe the U.S. should expand the Selective Service System to include men, women, LBGT — everyone. It would not have to be primarily military training, but include health, education and disaster response preparation. This public service should be required before anyone couldÃâà...
Herald-Mail Media
March 17, 2018
During World War II, she was employed as assistant chief clerk with the Selective Service System in Draft Board No. 3, where she met her husband, when he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps after serving in the South Pacific. When the war was winding down, she was employed as aÃâà...
Meriden Record-Journal
March 17, 2018
The surveys were part of the preparedness movement that Holcomb championed. The manpower census laid the framework for the Selective Service System, which “will provide the most prompt, efficient, and equitable draft possible, if the country should need it,” according to the agency's description.
The Lane Report
February 14, 2018
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 14, 2018) – Emmanuel Belt, nominated by Gov. Matt Bevin to serve as the Kentucky state director for the Selective Service System (SSS), was officially appointed and sworn in by U.S. SSS Director Donald Benton in a ceremony at the State Capitol yesterday. As State Director, Belt will serve as liaisonÃâà...
UCSF News Services
December 31, 1999
Graham's birth date, September 14, was the first number drawn by the US Selective Service System's call to military service in 1969, when Graham was a dental student. Rather than being drafted, he enlisted in the US Navy. After graduation, that decision led him to serve as a dental officer for 18 months atÃâà...
News Item
December 31, 1999
I sure hope the selective service system is ready to reinstate the draft, because when we are at war with Russia, China and North Korea we are going to need a lot of soldiers. With bone spurs and without. Swept away. I am just calling about the street sweeper. We live in Tharptown and would appreciateÃâà...
Atlantic Council (blog)
December 31, 1999
No doubt the death of the selective service system forty-five years ago was caused by its chronic abuse during the Vietnam war. No doubt armed services filled with volunteers are efficient and capable (if chronically over-deployed). But as our citizenry divorces itself from public service, do we like what weÃâà...
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