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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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    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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Public Service Award OPM Meritorious Service Medal Selective Service System Distinguished Service Medal Selective Service System Exceptional Service Medal...
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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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  • 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 12th director of the Selective Service System in the Obama administration. He is a former National Commander...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Secretary of Defense and later the acting chief of staff at the Selective Service System under President Joe Biden. Garrison is currently the vice president...
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  • victims" The NCFM filed a lawsuit, National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System, that challenges the legality of requiring only males to register...
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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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