selective service
Mandatory military enrollment
Selective service is a system for drafting citizens into military duty, particularly the U.S. program requiring men to register at age eighteen for potential conscription.
The Selective Service System maintains these records in case Congress authorizes a draft: He registered for selective service on his eighteenth birthday.
The term emphasizes that inductees are selected rather than volunteering.
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- draftPreliminary version of text
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- sign upFormally agree to participate
- lotteryRandomized prize distribution
classification · induction · Vietnam · Vietnam War · constitutional rights · draft board · call-up · appeals process · record-keeping · legal mandates · armed forces · reserve forces · Cold War policies · national defense · mobilization · wartime · turning eighteen · eighteen
- civic dutiestaxes, jury duty, paying taxes, voting, tax payment
- civic dutyjury duty, voting, tax paying, voter registration, civic engagement
- American WWIdoughboys, General Pershing, Argonne, Western Front, over there
- conscriptionconscription, conscript, conscripts, draftee, draftees
- military serviceactive duty, deployment, tour of duty, combat duty, enlistment
- war mobilizationmobilization, troop mobilization, military draft, mobilization orders, war footing
selective servicevoluntary enlistment
Unpressured military signup
volunteer army · voluntary service · enlistment · volunteering · professional army
selective serviceprofessional army
Paid, trained military force
recruitment · standing army · military recruitment · volunteer recruitment
selective servicevoluntary participation
Unforced decision to join
free choice · conscientious objection · draft exemption · pacifism
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