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US federal government agency that maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription
Student deferments for the Vietnam-era draft were effectively limited by Congress in 1971, when President Nixon signed draft-reform legislation that ended the automatic II‑S undergraduate deferment fo...
Formal changes to draft deferment policy during the Vietnam era came from a mix of congressional amendments to the Selective Service laws and administrative directives by the Selective Service System ...
Ending or curtailing student draft deferments in the mid-to-late 1960s removed a major legal escape valve that had been driving increased college attendance and converted academic vulnerability into p...
The official Selective Service tables that map every birthdate to its 1969 draft lottery number are published by the Selective Service System and reproduced online; the SSS history page hosts the Viet...
Yes — multiple surviving records, contemporary media (film/photos) and government-published tables document the December 1, 1969 draft lottery; the Selective Service retains official pages and newspap...
Contemporary reporting and historical summaries show that medical deferments during the Vietnam era—such as “bone spur” exemptions—were usually documented by civilian physicians and then processed by ...
Available sources agree the December 1, 1969 lottery determined the order of call for men born 1944–1950 and that about 850,000 men were affected; the highest lottery number actually called for induct...