Editing Selective Service System (section)

{{Short description|American conscription system}}
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| agency_name = Selective Service System
| seal = Seal of the Selective Service System.svg
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| formed = {{start date|df=yes|1917|5|18}}
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| employees = (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<ref name="quick">{{cite web|url=https://www.sss.gov/About/Quick-Facts-and-Figures |title=Quick Facts and Figures |publisher=US Selective Service System |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200120024234/https://www.sss.gov/About/Quick-Facts-and-Figures |archive-date=20 January 2020 }}</ref>
| budget = $31.3 million (FY 2024)
| chief1_name = Craig T. Brown
| chief1_position = Director (acting)
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The '''Selective Service System''' ('''SSS''') is an [[Independent agencies of the United States government|independent agency of the United States government]] that maintains a database of registered male U.S. [[Citizenship of the United States|citizens]] and other U.S. residents potentially subject to [[Conscription in the United States|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 males 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=What is the Selective Service System?stem |url=https://hasbrouck.org/draft/selective-service.html |website=Resisters.info |access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref> 

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,<ref name="must">[https://www.sss.gov/Registration-Info/Who-Registration Who must register?], [http://www.sss.gov/when.htm When to enlist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429110422/http://www.sss.gov/when.htm |date=29 April 2015 }}, Selective Service System.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.sss.gov/Status.html |title = Selective Service System > Home |website = www.sss.gov |access-date = 9 February 2012 |archive-date = 1 June 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150601050401/https://www.sss.gov/Status.html |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | publisher=Selected Service System | title=Who Needs to Register | url=https://www.sss.gov/register/who-needs-to-register/}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ack">{{cite web |url = https://www.sss.gov/Home/Address-Change |title = Change of Information |publisher = Selective Service System |access-date = 13 October 2015 }}</ref> 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]].<ref name="cannot">[http://www.sss.gov/FSbenefits.htm Benefits and Programs Linked to Registration] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727071105/http://www.sss.gov/FSbenefits.htm |date=27 July 2008 }}, from the Selective Service System website</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.jamrs.org/aff.php |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061022001158/http://jamrs.org/aff.php |archive-date = 22 October 2006 |title = Jamrs Affiliations |publisher = Jamrs.org |access-date = 8 April 2011 }}</ref>

Regulations are codified at [[Title 32 of the United States Code|Title 32]] of the [[Code of Federal Regulations]], Chapter XVI.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2016-title32-vol6/xml/CFR-2016-title32-vol6-subtitleB-chapXVI.xml |title = Title 32, Subtitle B, Chapter XVI, Code of Federal Regulations |publisher = Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and the Government Publishing Office |date = 1 July 2016 |access-date = 27 April 2017 }}</ref>