Did you register with the Selective Service System (Draft) before you turned 26?

[Elganja]

i did when i turned 20

 

[HardcoreRobot]

apparently registered the day before my 18th birthday

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I think you need to clean out your desk a little more often..

I chuckled when I found out. I didn't even have this desk then and have moved 3 or 4 times, but I still managed to keep the stub around.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I registered when I hit 18. I knew I wanted to work for the FBI, so I figured I might as well get it out of the way ... at the age of 18, and not even thinking about joining the military I was slightly worried about it.

 

[skillyho]

Yep...I think I got a free razor for doing it, too?

 

[JTsyo]

I actually needed my SSS number for a form but had no clue what it was. Luckily you can get it online from their site.

 

[Tobolo]

I registered to vote about 5 months before my 18th birthday. There was a box on the form asking if I wanted to register with the SS and I did it then.

 

[OCNewbie]

Amazing that the gov would hold something against you from your teenage years like that.

I agree completely. There is actually a congressman out of Colorado that has sponsored a bill that would change the SSS to make it where it was only in effect during a President-declared national state of emergency. I'm writing a letter to him to offer my support for the bill.

It's called the "National Emergency Selective Service Act of 2011", and you can find it by entering that in the search box here - Link. Apparently it would save like 24.2 million tax dollars a year.

Doesn't seem you can direct link to the search results as they expire within 30 minutes.

 

[slackerinabox]

Voted no but just checked, guess I did after all - a few months after my 18th birthday. Have absolutely no recollection of being that responsible then

 

[crashtestdummy]

I registered. I remember receiving my draft card and thinking, "after the 1960s, you'd think they would have stopped making these things out of paper."

 

[dfuze]

Registered at 18 on the little white card.

 

[mnewsham]

I registered with about 3 weeks until my 18th birthday. My brother didn't until he was 19 1/2.

 

[Deeko]

My registration date is two days after my 18th birthday.

 

[TwiceOver]

Any way to check this? I don't remember doing it, but was not rejected when I applied for a Gov't job that required registration.

 

[Linflas]

I was born before 1960 (not required)
WTF? Not only was it required but it had the consequence of making you eligible for the draft until it was halted in 1973. I registered and received my draft card when I turned 18 as required.

 

[trmiv]

Any way to check this? I don't remember doing it, but was not rejected when I applied for a Gov't job that required registration.

https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfVerification.aspx

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I registered twice.

When I was 18, it was required for some scholarship money.

The second time was when I was 26 (or 27 - whatever is one year too old.) I moved and got a new driver's license. Whoever punched the info from the application into the DMV computer miskeyed it, made me a year younger, and re-registered me for SS.

My mom grew up during Vietnam, so even though she intellectually knew about the volunteer military and stuff, I got away with so much stuff for a couple months after I "registered for the draft." Heheh.

 

[911paramedic]

I was active duty E-4 and got a letter telling me that I had better go register or all kinds of bad things were going to happen to me, lol.

 

[TwiceOver]

https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfVerification.aspx

Thanks. 01/02/1997 that would be about a month after I turned 18. I spent a lot of time high back then so who knows. Looking back I kinda wish I would have went into some sort of service. Ohh well, too late/fat now.

 

[Zap]

I registered when I was 18.

 

[Zeze]

Yup, I remember it and so do they.

Date of Registration
2/9/2000

 

[Saint Nick]

9/27/2004 :d

 

[PingSpike]

I remember going to the post office to do it and not particularly liking the idea. The website indicates it was about a month after I turned 18.

 

[Squisher]

D.O.B. 4/2/1957 - didn't have to.

 

[FoBoT]

Date of Registration
5/10/1984
about a month after I turned 18
i think you were supposed to update your address with them or something, but after i joined the US Navy in April 1986, i didn't worry about it anymore