The chief function of selective service at the moment is to require 18-year-olds to register.

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All men between ages of 18 and 26 are already required to register for the draft with the Selective Service System.

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To verify male Job Corps applicants compliance with Selective Service registration requirements.

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To enable the Dept of Education to identify Federal student assistance applicants who are ineligible because they have not registered with Selective Service.

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All males must register with the Selective Service System by their 18th birthday, under penalty of law and the revocation of all federal student aid.

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So if we were to see women register for selective service, you certainly would see a possibility not only of women being drafted but possibly even being drafted into the infantry in an attempt to be fair.

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It is paradoxical that the press calls for revalidation of doctors, who usually have had to complete at least 14 years of highly selective training and repeated, tough postgraduate exams, and yet allows health-service management to limp along undetected.

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