Selective Service Registration Act

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Selective Service Registration Act. Verify your selective service registration number on this site once it has been processed. The agency was established in its first form in 1917 and is authorized by the military selective service act (50 u.s.c.a.

Young men registering for conscription during World War I
Young men registering for conscription during World War I

The selective service act of 1917 was the first act which mandates the u.s. Verify your selective service registration number on this site once it has been processed. The act contained a significant change from the civil war draft on replacements.

Selective service will keep his information on file and process it automatically later in the year, when the man is within 30 days of reaching his 18th birthday.

The military selective service act (act) authorizes the president to require the registration for possible military service of males but not females, the purpose of registration being to facilitate any eventual conscription under the act. All men 18 years and older had to register with selective service. The selective service act was reauthorized in 1951 as the universal military training and service act, and all males age 18 to 26 were required to register for the draft. Between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.