If a draft were held, local draft boards would classify registrants to
determine whether they were exempt from military service. According to US Code
Title 32, Chapter XVI, Sec. 1630.2, men would be sorted into the following
categories:
| Class |
Category |
| 1-A |
Available for unrestricted military service. |
| 1-A-O |
Conscientious objector available for noncombatant military service
only. |
| 1-C |
Member of the Armed Forces of the United States, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service. |
| 1-D-D |
Deferment for certain members of a reserve component or student
taking military training. |
| 1-D-E |
Exemption of certain members of a reserve component or student
taking military training. |
| 1-H |
Active Registrant (*All registrants currently in the database have
this classification) |
| 1-O |
Conscientious objector to all military service. A registrant must
establish to the satisfaction of the board that his request for
exemption from combatant and noncombatant military training and service
in the Armed Forces is based upon moral, ethical or religious beliefs
which play a significant role in his life and that his objection to
participation in war is not confined to a particular war. |
| 1-O-S |
Conscientious objector to all military service. |
| 1-W |
Conscientious objector ordered to perform alternative service. |
| 2-D |
Registrant deferred because of study preparing for the ministry. |
| 3-A |
Registrant deferred because of hardship to dependents. |
| 3-A-S |
Registrant deferred because of hardship to dependents (separated). |
| 4-A |
Registrant who has completed military service. |
| 4-A-A |
Registrant who has performed military service for a foreign nation. |
| 4-B |
Official deferred by law. |
| 4-C |
Alien or dual national. |
| 4-D |
Minister of religion. |
| 4-F |
Registrant not acceptable for military service. To be eligible for
Class 4-F, a registrant must have been found not qualified for service
in the Armed Forces by a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS)
under the established physical, mental, or moral standards. The
standards of physical fitness that would be used in a future draft would
come from AR 40-501. Openly gay men are not allowed to serve in the
American military. |
| 4-G |
Registrant exempted from service because of the death of his parent
or sibling while serving in the Armed Forces or whose parent or sibling
is in a captured or missing in action status. |
| 4-T |
Treaty alien. |
| 4-W |
Registrant who has completed alternative service in lieu of
induction. |
