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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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    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...
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    States, who are 18 through 25 are required to register with the Selective Service System. U.S. federal law continues to permit compulsory conscription of...
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    The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 76–783, 54 Stat. 885,...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    "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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  • Public Service Award OPM Meritorious Service Medal Selective Service System Distinguished Service Medal Selective Service System Exceptional Service Medal...
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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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    conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of conscription to military service in the Vietnam...
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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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    United States Air Force officer. He served as director of the Selective Service System in the Obama administration. He is a former National Commander...
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    original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-09. "Selective Service System: Welcome". Selective Service System. Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs...
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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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    Lewis Blaine Hershey (category Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army))
    United States Army general who served as the second Director of the Selective Service System, the means by which the United States administers its military...
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  • company 4-F classification in the U.S. Selective Service System, identifying a person as unfit for military service 4F correlator, in Fourier optics The...
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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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    for 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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  • President Jimmy Carter re-established registration under the Selective Service System following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Carter asked...
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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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  • 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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  • commission was formed by Congress to: conduct a review of the military selective service process (commonly referred to as ‘‘the draft’’); and consider methods...
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    the Selective Service System and through the Department of Defense. The United States recognizes religious and moral objections, but not selective objections...
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    Split Screen series, this documentary revisits the 1970 short film Selective Service System and interviews Dan Lovejoy and Warren Haack, who made the graphic...
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    North Dakota, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 34 National Personnel Records Center; St. Louis, Missouri;...
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    26 in the construction workforce were classified as 4-F by the Selective Service System, and not required to serve because they did not meet the Army's...
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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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    directly responsible to the President for the management of the Selective Service System. Born in Catskill, New York, Chatfield was raised in Springfield...
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