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![]() ![]() citizens, regardless of where they live, and male immigrants, whether documented or undocumented, residing within the United States, who are 18 through 25 are required to register with the Selective Service System. However, conscription remains in place on a contingency basis and all male U.S. Armed Forces moved to an all-volunteer military. Active conscription in the United States ended in 1973, when the U.S. Armed Forces that could not be filled through voluntary means. From 1940 until 1973, during both peacetime and periods of conflict, men were drafted to fill vacancies in the U.S. It was the country's first peacetime draft. The fourth incarnation of the draft came into being in 1940, through the Selective Training and Service Act. ![]() ![]() federal government in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. ![]()
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