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Show , . . Know Requirements Of Selective Service , occurs. The report must be in I writing. Q.: I was told that each component of a Selective Service Ser-vice number has a- meaning. Will you identify these for me? Ans.: A' Selective Service number, consists of four elements. ele-ments. The first identifies the numerical designation of the state in which the man is registered; the second is the number of his local board in that state; the third is the last two digits of his year of birth; and the fourth is the relative position, according to the sequence of dates of birth, of the registrant among other registrants of his board who were born in the same year. Q.: What is the organizational organiza-tional structure of the Selective Selec-tive Service System? Q.: Who must register with Selective Service? Ans.: It is the duty of every male resident in the United States to register with the Selective Service System within with-in five days after his eighteenth eight-eenth birthday. He may do this at the nearest local board office. However, the address given as his "home address" will determine which of the over 4,000 local board offices will receive his registration for permanent care. Registration Registra-tion is required even for those who belong to a Reserve, National Na-tional Guard, or ROTC unit. It is helpful for the young man to bring with him a copy of his birth certificate to insure in-sure accuracy of information. He must also complete and return re-turn a questionnaire which he will receive from his local board. Following registration, he is required by law to provide pro-vide his local board with his current mailing address. He must inform his board promptly, prompt-ly, and in writing, of any change in his circumstances which might be a reason for a change in his classification; and he is required to report, at the time and place designated desig-nated bv his local board, for Ans.: As a permanent, independent in-dependent agency of the Executive Exec-utive Branch of the Federal Government, the Selective Service Ser-vice System through its director direc-tor is responsible directly to the President. The system extends into all counties of the United States and its possessions pos-sessions through 4,087 local boards. interview, physical examination examina-tion or induction. He must carry an unaltered Selective I Service card with him at all times. A young man who fails to register with Selective Service is a delinquent under the law. Willful failure to register can result In immediate induction. Flagrant attempts to avoid military service may result in imprisonment up to five years or a fine of $10,000 or both. The Selective Service Local Board in Iron County Is located locat-ed at Room 203, Post Office Bldg. The office is open 9 a. m. - 12 noon and 1 p. m. -5 p. m. Monday through Friday. Fri-day. The clerk at this office is ready to be of assistance with registration and other matters pertaining to the draft. Q.: Can you tell me what changes in personal status a registrant must report to his local board? Ans.: It is the duty of every classified registrant to keep his local board currently informed of any fact that might result in the registrant being placed in a different classification. These are facts such as, but not limited to, any change in his occupational, marital, family, dependency, and military status, of his physical condition, of his home address, and of his receipt of any professional decree in a medical, dental, or allied specialist spec-ialist category. It is further noted that the registrant must report any change in such status to his local board within with-in 10 days after the change |