Beginning in 1980, the registration requirement resumed. Today, young men must register within 30 days of their eighteenth birthday. In the event of a mobilization, a lottery drawing would determine the order in which men would be called. The first priority group would be men in the calendar year of their twentieth birthday. Learn more about the SSS history as well as conscientious objection and women and the draft.
Registration forms are available online.
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