(2017): 124 full-time civilians, 56 part-time civilian directors, 175 part-time reserve force officers (in peacetime), up to 11,000 part-time volunteers[1]
Annual budget
$31.7 million (FY 2023)
Agency executive
Joel C. Spangenberg, Director (acting)
Website
www.sss.gov
The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered U.S. citizens and other U.S. residents potentially subject to military conscription (i.e., the draft). Although the U.S. military is currently an All-Volunteer Force, registration is still required for contingency planning and preparation for two types of draft: a general draft based on registration lists of people assigned male at birth, aged 18–25, and a special-skills draft based on professional licensing lists of workers in specified health care occupations. In the event of either type of draft, the Selective Service System would send out induction notices, adjudicate claims for deferments or exemptions, and assign draftees classified as conscientious objectors to alternative service work.[2] All male U.S. citizens and immigrant non-citizens who are between the ages of 18 and 25 are required by law to have registered within 30 days of their 18th birthdays,[3][4][5] and must notify the Selective Service within ten days of any changes to any of the information they provided on their registration cards, such as a change of address.[6] The Selective Service System is a contingency mechanism for the possibility that conscription becomes necessary.
Registration with Selective Service may be required for various federal programs and benefits, including job training, federal employment, and naturalization.[7]
The Selective Service System provides the names of all registrants to the Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies (JAMRS) program for inclusion in the JAMRS Consolidated Recruitment Database. The names are distributed to the Services for recruiting purposes on a quarterly basis.[8]
Regulations are codified at Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter XVI.[9]
^"Quick Facts and Figures". US Selective Service System. Archived from the original on 20 January 2020.
^"What is the Selective Service System?stem". Resisters.info. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
^Who must register?, When to enlist Archived 29 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Selective Service System.
^"Selective Service System > Home". www.sss.gov. Archived from the original on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
^Selected Service System. Who Needs to Register. https://www.sss.gov/register/who-needs-to-register/.
^"Change of Information". Selective Service System. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
^Benefits and Programs Linked to Registration Archived 27 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, from the Selective Service System website
^"Jamrs Affiliations". Jamrs.org. Archived from the original on 22 October 2006. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
^"Title 32, Subtitle B, Chapter XVI, Code of Federal Regulations". Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and the Government Publishing Office. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
and 23 Related for: Selective Service System information
The SelectiveServiceSystem (SSS) is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered U.S. citizens and other...
of the SelectiveServiceSystem. The previous iteration of the SelectiveServiceSystem was established by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940...
The SelectiveService Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 65–12, 40 Stat. 76, enacted May 18, 1917) authorized...
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,...
States, who are 18 through 25 are required to register with the SelectiveServiceSystem. United States federal law also continues to provide for the compulsory...
National Coalition for Men v. SelectiveServiceSystem, in which the federal judge declared the male-only selective-servicesystem unconstitutional. He was...
States is based on the Military SelectiveService Act, which delegates its implementation to the SelectiveServiceSystem. Conscientious objection is also...
"Records of the SelectiveServiceSystem (World War I)". 15 August 2016.; see also SelectiveService Act of 1917 and Selective Training and Service Act of 1940...
Alternative Service Program is a form of alternative service for conscientious objectors within its SelectiveServiceSystem. The Alternative Service Program...
Public Service Award OPM Meritorious Service Medal SelectiveServiceSystem Distinguished Service Medal SelectiveServiceSystem Exceptional Service Medal...
United States Army general who served as the second Director of the SelectiveServiceSystem, the means by which the United States administers its military...
company 4-F classification in the U.S. SelectiveServiceSystem, identifying a person as unfit for military service 4F correlator, in Fourier optics The...
April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014. "QUICK FACTS AND FIGURES". SelectiveServiceSystem. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 6 November...
the SelectiveServiceSystem and through the Department of Defense. The United States recognizes religious and moral objections, but not selective objections...
the SelectiveService Act (started in 1917) with Proclamation 4360, March 25, 1975. President Jimmy Carter reinstated the SelectiveServiceSystem with...
The U.S. has used military conscription, but not since 1973. The SelectiveServiceSystem retains the power to conscript males, requiring the registration...
for members of the military, the SelectiveServiceSystem and other matters related to defense policy. The Armed Services Committee was created as a result...
Benton was named by President Trump as the 13th Director of the SelectiveServiceSystem. He served in that position until the inauguration of President...
victims" The NCFM filed a lawsuit, National Coalition for Men v. SelectiveServiceSystem, that challenges the legality of requiring only males to register...
young men aged 18–25 were selected at random for military service by the SelectiveServiceSystem.[citation needed] The story was written just three years...
denied knowing an "A. J. Hidell". Oswald was then shown a forged SelectiveServiceSystem card bearing his photograph and the alias, "Alek James Hidell"...
All males up to the age of 26 are required to register with the SelectiveServiceSystem, whose mission is "to provide manpower to the armed forces in an...
Global Information
