The third Vietnam draft lottery was on Aug. According to the selective service, if a draft were held today, those who are 20 years old -- or turning 20 during the year in which the numbers are drawn -- would be the first to go.
Beginning Jan. Each succeeding year, a draft eligible man drops into the next lower priority group until he has reached his 26th birthday, at which time he is over the age of liability for the draft. It's important to know that even though someone is registered and his number is called, they may not be inducted automatically into the military. They may be eligible for a deferment; categories might include married persons, college students and family members of those killed in action.
You may also be excluded for medical or psychological reasons, may declare yourself to be a conscientious objector or may even be able to enlist in a specific branch or career field to avoid combat duty. If you lack legal means to avoid the draft, you could just not show up for your ordered military service, you could "dodge" your service requirement. During the Vietnam War, approximately , people were classified as draft dodger, after not reporting for induction as ordered.
Of those, , were charged formally with violating the draft, but only 3, were jailed. Of course, this was in the pre-computer and internet era; now, it's not quite so easy to be a fugitive from the feds. You could leave the country if drafted, like nearly , did during the Vietnam era.
A felony conviction means you lose your right to vote and the right to own, possess and use a firearm, among other things. The law doesn't require that women register for the draft.
Although it's a subject of intense debate, and many other countries require women to complete national service or register for the draft, the U. In , Congress came close to including women in the draft. House and Senate committees both approved a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that would have made the change. But ultimately, lawmakers stripped out the provision and ordered a review of the Selective Service System instead. Unless Congress changes the law, women are not permitted or required to register for the Selective Service System.
Conscription was used in World War I with the draft mechanism in both instances being dissolved at the end of hostilities.
In , prior to U. At the end of the war, the draft law was allowed to expire, but it was reenacted less than two years later to maintain necessary military manpower levels as a result of the Cold War. From until , during both peacetime and periods of conflict, men were drafted to fill vacancies in the armed forces which could not be filled through voluntary means.
In the summer of , registration was resumed. Presently, young men must register within 30 days of their 18th birthday. View Historical Timeline. The first Vietnam lottery, held on December 1, , brought with it many changes to prior Selective Service System procedures and protocols. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year Army Recruiting Command received multiple calls and emails about the fake texts, and although they reference actual recruiting battalions, they were not sent by Army.
The draft is not being reinstated, the Army cautioned this week, as scammers appear to zero in on hysteria. Army Recruiting Command. The draft was abolished in , and the U. However, registering for the Selective Service does not enlist a person into the armed forces. Were a draft to actually be enacted, it would be managed by the Selective Service and not the Army.
Army recruiting operations are proceeding as normal, command officials added in their news release on the issue. Iran vowed retaliation against the United States following a drone strike that killed Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Thursday night. So many people visited the Selective Service website on Jan.
The agency attributed the traffic increase to " the spread of misinformation," in a tweet. By now you've probably fielded a question or 15 from your children asking if they'll be forced to pack up and go to war.
Here's how you can answer their queries. Eric Fleury, assistant professor of Government and International Relations at Connecticut College , describes the Selective Service as simply a database for the government to keep a list of eligible males that they can draft to serve in the military should there be a need.
Enacting a draft is a congressional power, not a presidential one, Fleury explains. Should there be a need for people to serve in the military involuntarily, then that list will be used to start calling people to service.
Fleury says that by law, the government can require only that men register. The government would need to enact new legislation to actually put men in arms.
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