draft age
Military eligibility milestone
Draft age is the range of years during which a person is eligible for compulsory military service.
In the United States, men must register with Selective Service at eighteen and remain eligible until twenty-six: He was draft age during Vietnam but got a college deferment.
The specific ages vary by country and era.
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- conscientious objectionMoral refusal to fight
- eighteenNumber after seventeen
- selective serviceCompulsory military enrollment system
- mandatory serviceLegally required contribution
turning eighteen · enlistment · anti-war movements · gender roles · social equity · recruit · call to arms · war effort · boots on ground · political activism · patriotism · national security · notice · public opinion · exemption · registration system · civil rights · letter
- age-related termschildhood, adulthood, infancy, toddler years, puberty
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- age limitslearner permit, legal capacity, eighteen, sixteen, twenty-one
- conscriptionconscription, conscript, conscripts, draftee, draftees
- military enlistmentenlistment, recruit, enlisted, induction, recruits
- generationsbaby boomers, millennials, Gen Z, Gen X, baby boomer
draft ageunderage
Below legal minimum years
overage · retirement age · military retirement · deferment · senior status
draft agechildhood
Life's earliest phase
old age · protected status · exempt status · draft deferment · peacetime
draft agechildhood
Life's earliest phase
old age · retirement age · infancy · early childhood · adolescence