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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.
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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.
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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? |
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06-15-2016, 10:35 AM | #46 |
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my number would of been drafted but i would of enlisted before so. If my country called for my service I would go before they even called.
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06-15-2016, 10:45 AM | #47 |
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#25.
But i thought there was some rule against drafting an only child, no?
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06-15-2016, 10:58 AM | #48 |
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What does this mean?
What does this mean? I understand this part completely.
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06-15-2016, 10:59 AM | #49 |
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I would have proudly served my country. |
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06-15-2016, 11:00 AM | #50 |
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Apparently if you had a parent or sibling killed in military service, you were exempted. But not if you were just an only child.
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06-15-2016, 11:03 AM | #51 |
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I would have gone.
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06-15-2016, 11:16 AM | #52 |
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At least being in the Guards meant I would be in my chosen MOS instead of just being handed a rifle.
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06-15-2016, 11:18 AM | #53 |
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#196, so I wouldn't have been drafted.
I would have likely tried to join the Air Force but my vision, pre-LASIK, would have disqualified me from the Armed Forces, as it was 20/500 in one eye and 20/575 in the other. I had astigmatism as well (-4.25 and -3.75). Since LASIK in 2007, it's 20/15. |
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06-15-2016, 11:23 AM | #54 |
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06-15-2016, 11:27 AM | #55 |
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No way in hell I would have gone.
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06-15-2016, 12:44 PM | #56 |
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I'm at work on a cell. I'll explain when I get to a real keyboard.
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DEP is delayed entry program, and USNR is U.S. Naval Reserves. No clue on EOPD.
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06-15-2016, 01:19 PM | #58 |
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132. Not in college so looks like I would have went.
In real life I planned on going in the Air Force but had a child in high school so figured that probably wasn't my best move.
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06-15-2016, 03:09 PM | #59 |
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I joined the US Naval Reserve while in High School under the Delayed Entry Program. I went to Boot Camp for Summer vacation in between 11th and 12th grade. I went into active duty (training first) immediately after High School. My contract required that I serve a specific amount of active duty. I completed that requirement (actually got held over for a bit) before I turned 21 and was Honorably Discharged into reserve status because I had reached my End of Obligated Active Duty. A few years later I was also released from my reserve obligation. So, to answer the question posed in your OP, technically I was already discharged while 20 years old.
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06-15-2016, 03:09 PM | #60 |
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EOAD. End of Obligated Active Duty.
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