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Hypothetical: You and the Vietnam Draft
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Hypothetical: You and the Vietnam Draft
Fairplay and I had a conversation about this a while back. If you were 20 years old when the Vietnam draft lottery was started, what would have been your fate? Walk through the process and tell me if you would've been drafted.
(If you actually went through this process and I'm missing anything, correct me.) Step 1. Do you get the letter telling you that you've been drafted? They drew birthdays out of a hat, and you got drafted in the order in which your birthday was drawn. Look up your birthday here. According to the Selective Service website https://www.sss.gov/About/History-And-Records/lotter1, you got a draft letter if your number was 195 or lower.
Spoiler!
Next, you showed up and got classified. Enclosed here are the classifications. The numbers are a little bit apples and oranges, but as far as I can tell, you had about a 1 in 6 chance of ending up in uniform if your draft number got called. Most people apparently got a classification that exempted them from service. Here are the classifications.
Spoiler!
So would you have ended up in uniform? As for me, I would've not even been close. My birthday drew Draft Number 363, so I wouldn't have even come into question. Even if I had been drafted, at age 20 I would've had a college student deferment and been a 1S. War? What war? |
Nope I was a number 280 and would have been college bound anyhow.
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182
I wouldve gone, cant see myself being a dodger |
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I have spina bifida occulta, so I'd likely serve in a non-combat role. |
In top 25 dates taken but college deferment.
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I was born January 4, 1961 so I remember when the ball lottery on tv happened since I had three older sisters who had a list of birthdays of boys in the senior class, there were about sixty of them, and sat and gazed the list. With each date read off. My mom had friends over and they all had big annual church calendars, marking off dates so they could reference them when they started making calls to other women. I remember my Mom crying on the phone several times over the next few days. Knowing how little I knew then, had I been of age I would have gone. Knowing what I know now.... Question gets a lot tougher to answer.....
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111 position.
But a college student deferment. If not I would have agreed to go. But my vision was -7 and -8. Maybe they'd have not taken me. Knock my glasses off and I couldn't tell an enemy from a tree stump from more than 3 feet. |
Guess I would of been safe with being in slot number 354. I would qualify for 4-A classification otherwise.
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257.
They wouldn't have taken Bob Dole because he is batshit crazy... |
Way after 195 and college deferment.
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I would have worked my ass off in boot camp then shooting myself in the head while cleaning my gun or some shit. My parents wouldn't even go to the wall because they said it didn't count.
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112, and a 1A.
Duty calls, you go. |
I drew 88. I would have been excluded because I was in college; and if not, I would have been 4F.
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LMAO
I was born on September 14th. I would've been ****ed. I was #1 GI. |
I don't blame anyone who avoided that war. I respect the hell out of anyone that went but seriously that was a 10 year campaign only designed to make money. It was such a waste of life and time. Has there ever been a bigger pile of bullshit than Vietnam.
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