There’s a good reason why people are familiar with the Selective Service: When men living in the United States turn eighteen, they’re not simply granted the privileges of being of age; they also ...

In the summer of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to extend the Selective Service term of duty beyond that passed the year before in the nation's first peacetime draft. The vote, ...

The Selective Service is a government bureau separate from the Defense Department whose mission statement is: “To register men and maintain a system that, when authorized by the President and Congress ...