Huh- Didn't know this - Men 18 to 25 must notify Sel. Service System if they move

[packman]

If you’re a young man, age 18 through 25, the law requires you to notify the Selective Service System of an address change within 10 days, up until January 1st of the year you turn 26 years old. Men are no longer required to notify Selective Service of address changes once they are 26 years old or older.

NOTE: When reporting an address change, you may request a new registration acknowledgment card, which will be in the form of a letter, with your new address. Due to the volume of requests, it takes about 30 days to receive a new registration acknowledgment letter.


https://www.sss.gov/verify/update-info/

[Tetrachloride]

1. i had 9 residences in that age.

[ratchiweenie]

5. My son always kept his up to date because it is one form of identification that government agencies

have to accept.

[Tetrachloride]

6. wow that's useful

[ratchiweenie]

15. Yes it is. He's bi-polar and would never have been taken but it is one of the accepted forms of

valid national ID. Every time he moved, he notified them and had them send him a new card.

[rsdsharp]

2. Hopefully, the statute of limitations has run.

I turned 26 in 1980.

Somewhere around here is an old wallet with my draft card still in it. Ultimately, nobody from my draft class was drafted, but the guy across the hall in my dorm stayed drunk for three weeks after his draft number came up 1.

[flotsam2]

3. Last man drafted was in 1972

The following shows the number of men who were inducted into military service through the Selective Service System during the major 20th century conflicts. The last man inducted entered the U.S. Army on June 30, 1973 during the last draft conducted.

https://www.sss.gov/history-and-records/induction-statistics/

Your neighbor is older then you and telling war stories or lacks veracity...

[Elessar Zappa]

8. He was 26 in 1980.

So they got their draft cards in 72.

[rsdsharp]

9. Well, no. He was neither older, telling war stories, or lying.

Our draft numbers were pulled in Spring 1973. Ultimately every person in that class was classified 1H, and no one was drafted. However, a guy who lived across the hall on my dorm floor, who was also a freshman in college at the time, received draft number 1. My number was something like 156. None of us would be drafted, but he didn’t know that at the time, and was a little upset.

[Iggo]

4. No shit?!?!?

I moved like 20 times between the ages of 18 and 25.

[LeftInTX]

14. Lock you up!! LOL

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I should think to ask my son if he ever registered with the Selective Service.

I have no idea if he did, even though he was living mostly at home during those years.

[Igel]

10. If he completed the FAFSA, he needed to.

If not, perhaps not.

I never did.

Then again, there was a donut hole between registering for the earlier version of the draft and the newer version. My birthdate nicely fit in there, I had no reporting requirements.

My son will. At 18 he has the right of voting and the obligation of military service, if called up.

Idjits and wards of the state have rights without duties. Citizens know that with rights come duties.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Ahhh, maybe that's it.

Neither son filled out the FAFSA. I saw no point in it because their grandparents had very generously funded 529 accounts for them, which was more than enough to pay for college. Plus, they were still alive when my oldest first went off to college, and insisted on having the tuition and room and board bill sent to them so they could pay for it directly. Their financial generosity was very appreciated.

I will add this. Despite no FAFSA being filled out, my younger son got letters from both of the two schools he'd been accepted into (Hendrix, in Conway, Arkansas and the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma) saying he'd been awarded merit scholarships. Apparently they both really wanted him to attended. The Hendrix College one was a bit sweeter than the Tulsa one, so I called the Tulsa recruiter, told him about the better offer at the other school, and Tulsa upped their scholarship. Which is where he wound up attending.

[Angleae]

12. I was on active duty through those ages. I'm pretty sure Selective Service was irrelevant.

[LeftInTX]

13. Welp...my sons broke the law..LOL

They both registered at 18, but that's about it.
Youngest moved once. Oldest moved a few times.
They're older now, so what are they gonna do them?

Of course what are they gonna do with the millions of couch surfers from the last 50 years???