Are you sure about that? My sons fall in that birth year range, and they had to register at 18.
Are you sure about that? My sons fall in that birth year range, and they had to register at 18.Yup, I'm sure. I turned 18 in 1977, and they had ended Selective Service before then, and a few years later, when they started it up again, there were a few years (including 1977) that were not required to register.
Here's the relevant part of the Wikipedia article:
On March 29, 1975, President Ford signed Proclamation 4360, Terminating Registration Procedures Under Military Selective Service Act, eliminating the registration requirement for all 18–25 year old male citizens.[9]On July 2, 1980, however, President Carter signed Proclamation 4771, Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, retroactively re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18–26 year old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960. Only men born between March 29, 1957, and December 31, 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration.
Are you sure about that? My sons fall in that birth year range, and they had to register at 18.Note that Obama (assuming he is being truthful about his birth date) would have had to register, but not until a couple of years after he turned 18.