Selective Service System
Overview
Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...
maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription
Conscription in the United States
Conscription in the United States has been employed several times, usually during war but also during the nominal peace of the Cold War...
. Most male U.S. citizens and male immigrant non-citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are required by law to have registered within 30 days of their 18th birthday. As of the end of 2008, the names and addresses of over 14 million men are on file.
Registration for Selective Service is also required for various federal programs and benefits, including student loan
Student loan
A student loan is designed to help students pay for university tuition, books, and living expenses. It may differ from other types of loans in that the interest rate may be substantially lower and the repayment schedule may be deferred while the student is still in education...
s, job training, federal employment, and naturalization
Naturalization
Naturalization is the acquisition of citizenship and nationality by somebody who was not a citizen of that country at the time of birth....
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The Selective Service System provides the names of all registrants to the Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies (JAMRS
JAMRS
Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies is the organization formed by The Pentagon to oversee the development of a database of United States 16- to 25-year-olds, including name, address, email addresses, cell phone numbers, ethnicity, social security numbers and area of study."The Selective...
) program for inclusion in the JAMRS Consolidated Recruitment Database.
