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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...
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    of the Selective Service System. The previous iteration of the Selective Service System was established by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940...
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    residing within the United States, are required to register with the Selective Service System (SSS) between the ages of 18 and 25. Failure to register for the...
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    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...
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  • States is based on the Military Selective Service Act, which delegates its implementation to the Selective Service System. Conscientious objection is also...
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  • National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System, in which the federal judge declared the male-only selective-service system unconstitutional. He was...
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    "Records of the Selective Service System (World War I)". 15 August 2016.; see also Selective Service Act of 1917 and Selective Training and Service Act of 1940...
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    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, was the...
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    National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System was a court case that was first decided in the United States District Court for the Southern District...
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    a system of conscription, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the peacetime years before the Vietnam War. It was administered by the Selective Service...
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    it. The Senate version of the NDAA contains a provision expanding selective service registration to women; the House version does not. On December 5,...
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    Selective Service registration or to equalize the treatment of men and women by ending Selective Service registration. The Selective Service System in...
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    United States Air Force officer. He served as 12th director of the Selective Service System in the Obama administration. He is a former National Commander...
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  • Public Service Award OPM Meritorious Service Medal Selective Service System Distinguished Service Medal Selective Service System Exceptional Service Medal...
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    Benton was named by President Trump as the 13th Director of the Selective Service System. He served in that position until the inauguration of President...
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    members of the military, the Selective Service System, and other matters related to defense policy. The Armed Services Committee was created as a result...
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  • certification by the individual that they either had registered with the Selective Service System or were not required to register. One of these laws was successfully...
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  • in effect and to provide for the registration of women with the Selective Service System, and for other purposes". 13 August 2015. "Rangel Introduces Bills...
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  • Retrieved 23 June 2025. "Conscientious Objection and Alternative Service". Selective Service System. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 1...
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  • Alternative Service Program is a form of alternative service for conscientious objectors within its Selective Service System. The Alternative Service Program...
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    Lewis Blaine Hershey (category Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army))
    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...
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  • Minnesota Starvation Experiment (category Civilian Public Service)
    coordination with the Civilian Public Service (CPS, 1941–1947) of conscientious objectors and the Selective Service System and used 36 men selected from a pool...
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  • the Selective Service Act (started in 1917) with Proclamation 4360, March 25, 1975. President Jimmy Carter reinstated the Selective Service System with...
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    denied knowing an "A. J. Hidell". Oswald was then shown a forged Selective Service System card bearing his photograph and the alias, "Alek James Hidell"...
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    destruction of U.S. property, destruction of Selective Service files, and interference with the Selective Service Act of 1967. They were also sentenced to...
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  • April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014. "QUICK FACTS AND FIGURES". Selective Service System. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 6 November...
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  • young men aged 18–25 were selected at random for military service by the Selective Service System.[citation needed] The story was written just three years...
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  • Retrieved 13 August 2024 – via fold3.com. "Draft Registration Card". Selective Service System. Retrieved 13 August 2024 – via fold3.com. Altman, Larry (10 September...
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  • The U.S. has used military conscription, but not since 1973. The Selective Service System retains the power to conscript males, requiring the registration...
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    government executive and lobbyist who served as the 11th Director of Selective Service System from November 29, 2004, to May 29, 2009, having been nominated...
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