of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and by section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, is required to and shall on February 16, 1942, present ...

The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 initially required that all men between the ages of 21 to 35 register for the draft, with those called up serving for 12 months. This was later ...

The nation's first military draft began in 1940, when President Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act. The draft continued through war and peacetime until 1973. More than 10 ...

On this day in 1940, Congress passed the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. The lawmakers acted soon after the German and Soviet invasion of Poland prompted Britain and France to declare war ...

On this day in 1940, some two weeks after the outbreak of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a Selective Service Act that required ... to combatant training and service in ...

In September 1940, World War II was a year old. The US was still a noncombatant, but it was preparing for a fight. That month, the US introduced the Selective Training and Service Act — the ...

Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. As many as 8,615,000 men and 250,000 women served in U.S. forces during the Vietnam era (1955-1975). Draftees made up 2,215,000 of ...

Congress established the first reemployment protections for military members with the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Those protections were modified several times during the early ...

In 1940 President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act, which required young American men to register and provide a backup support for the U.S. Armed Forces.

On the eve of World War II, initial protections were written into the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (STSA). Congress wanted to ensure draftees could be confident about returning to ...