Registration with the Selective Service System has been mandatory for decades, however the US military draft will soon become an automatic registration process by the federal government for young men.
The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool. The U.S. hasn’t had a military draft since 1973, but it still ...
Automatic draft registration will start in December 2026, following President Donald Trump’s signing of the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act into law in December 2025. This will ...