Donald is ashamed of your lack of commitment to dodging.

309, I'd have been safe. The thing is, it probably would have depended on the situation. At the start of a war, everyone is patriotic. I got out of the military less than a year before my unit deployed to Iraq and I nearly signed back up to go with them. It felt like I was letting them down not going, even though none of them asked me to and would have all told me I was stupid for even considering it. For Vietnam though, that was one of those wars that didn't feel like our fight, I doubt I'd have felt the same and would have been happy to have pulled a low number.

205 for me. I would have been in college anyway.

I'd ask if WW2 veteran Lt. Aldo Raine was still in command somewhere, maybe even promoted, if so I would ask to be part of his crew.

138 but I would have enlisted anyway.

351. And I went through this for real.

I had a 2-S deferment. As the draft continued, I received a letter from my local draft board stating that at the current rate, I'd be drafted by a certain date. And they changed my 2-S to a 1-A as they were running short of potential draftees.

It did give me some time to make decisions as to where I wanted to go. And since I could swim a lot better than run, I joined the Navy.

No clue what my number was. I registered and would have gone like a young idiot. Today, I would tell my son to go to Canada.

Low draft number with 1-S

Yeah, we would have been more likely to not be in college in 1970 if we happen to be born later than 1950. However, it looks like there was a mysterious bump in college enrollment right about the time that the draft lottery started (go figure), so it's not as big a difference as one might expect, maybe low 60 percents in the year 2000 versus low 50 percents in the year 1970.

So maybe we think about this (rolling dice). If you would have had college deferment at the age of 20 in your own era, and the last digit of your home address is a 6 or a 7, then assume you wouldn't have had college deferment.

I would've lost my college deferment, but again with a draft number of 363 I wouldn't have been drafted unless NVA battalions were amassing outside Las Vegas.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2...d_20100428.png

Under your guidance, at 20, I still would have had a deferment for college, and still would have been 4F.

You and I would have been waving our flags for the veterans and enjoying chocolate milk shakes on Main Street. I'm kind of bummed about getting kicked out of 1970 college, though.

I got my Honorable Discharge when I was 20. So, probably would have stayed in the Navy.

Did you decide pretty quickly it's not for you, or were you a career guy because your parents signed you up at birth?

Went DEP for USNR, EOAD before I hit 21. Had fun, left. Did not appreciate the lack of females.