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Would You Have Been Drafted?


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I always thought that once you got your draft notice, that was it, you had to report. However, a guy that I worked for received his notice and enlisted into the Air Force thus cancelling out the draft notice. Interesting way out I guess, avoid the draft by enlisting!

 

He stayed stateside for almost his entire tour except for 30 days TDY to Vietnam. Of those 30 days, he spent every one of them over North Vietnam! He was involved with photography and was either on the first aircraft over the target taking before shots or on the last aircraft over the target taking after photos.

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Laury Allison
I always thought that once you got your draft notice, that was it, you had to report. However, a guy that I worked for received his notice and enlisted into the Air Force thus cancelling out the draft notice. Interesting way out I guess, avoid the draft by enlisting!

 

He stayed stateside for almost his entire tour except for 30 days TDY to Vietnam. Of those 30 days, he spent every one of them over North Vietnam! He was involved with photography and was either on the first aircraft over the target taking before shots or on the last aircraft over the target taking after photos.

 

I enlisted in the Air Force in 1982. I knew a lot of guys (including my recruiter), who got draft notices and went down and enlisted in the Air Force. I suspect that a lot of those knew their number was coming up.

 

My Dad got a draft notice sometime in the 1950's...after he had already been in the Army for several years and was a SSgt with a tour in Korea during the war.

 

I worked with a guy who went in the Air Force back in '67...he knew a guy in basic training that was a draftee into the Air Force. He said none of them believed him at first, but sure enough he was in for only 2 years as a draftee! Must have been a slow month for the Air Force. I guess anything is possible.

 

Laury (#350 in the draft lottery) B)bye1.gif

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"Would have been Drafted"? I WAS > went in ARMY as a Private E-1, & 3 years later I was promoted to Captain! No complaints; other that almost being killed in Vietnam a few times ; the U.S. ARMY was very good to Me!

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Greg Robinson
I also know a Marine who got his draft notice forwarded to him by his father while he was in theater Vietnam :lol:

 

I don't recall exactly when it was....some time in the late '60's.....I got a notice from the draft board reclassifying me "1A" despite being in the Marine Reserves. I thought it was a joke until I got the draft notice. So then I took my military ID down to the local office and got it straightened out.

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Well, let me see if I can remember back that far. Oh yes,... 1970...I was 18 and out of high school...and had a draft number of 076 (birthday in October). Fortunately I was in college and had a 2S deferment. I let the deferment lapse in my second year of college and received my "Greetings from the President of the United States......." which I promptly tore up and threw in the trash. About a month later I burned my draft card with 3 other friends in front of about 35 witnesses.

 

As Paul Harvey says, "Now, for the rest of the story....."

 

a. I was attending a community college while 2 of my friends finished high school...when they finished, we all enlisted together.

b. When I recieved my draft notification I had already enlisted and was reporting to the Seattle Induction Center in a week's time.

c. When we burned our draft cards I was in Basic Training at Ft. Ord and the witnesses were the rest of the platoon. We all thought it was funny but Drill Sergeant Gitchell was not amused, not at all.

 

BEAR

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Same thing happened to me, Got my draft notice Dec 69, but had been in the service since I joined in May 69. I ignored the draft notice and a couple mts later a couple of guys came to my fathers house looking for me and my Dad a WW2 vet pointed out to them how stupid they were.

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Yea if I remember right draft board members weren't the brightest bulbs in the sign. I also remember a draftboard member that published a small town newspaper where I live. Just by chance both of his sons were 4F because they had dandruf. ( NO Kidding )

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pathfinder505
< One, two, three, what are we fighting for... >

# 4 !!!! thumbdown.gif

Country Joe.

Don't give a damn, the next stop is VIETNAM..

Country Joe

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Flunked the physical in April. '64, was to retake it in fall. Knew the USAF recruiter and would have joined and gone to OCS had I passed. By September that year I was teaching, and they were not taking teachers due to shortages. Got married in '66. Shortly thereafter they started taking teachers, but not married teachers. (We actually had a guy escorted from the school by the FBI!) By '69 they started taking married teachers, but not those with children. Didn't worry after that.

 

I wondered at times if I had missed the great adventure of my generation. I don't think that way any more.

 

G

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Flunked the physical in April. '64, was to retake it in fall. Knew the USAF recruiter and would have joined and gone to OCS had I passed. By September that year I was teaching, and they were not taking teachers due to shortages. Got married in '66. Shortly thereafter they started taking teachers, but not married teachers. (We actually had a guy escorted from the school by the FBI!) By '69 they started taking married teachers, but not those with children. Didn't worry after that.

 

I wondered at times if I had missed the great adventure of my generation. I don't think that way any more.

 

G

All you missed was the opportunity to fill a body bag Sir. That or wander around a VA hospital ward trying to figure out who stole your happy pills. think.gif An old friend stopped by to visit yesterday. He lost a hand in 66 while in service. He was rubbing his stump and said " its funny that hand has been gone 41 years and my fingers still hurt". :blink:

You have done well teaching kids. thumbsup.gif An important and honorable profession.

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On my way to the 'Nam.

144.

Mind you I would have been only 10 years old.

I still remember a CBC program called..."Here Come the Seventies".

There was plenty of reporting on Vietnam.

Cheers

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I got a 117 with an October birthday. Off I would have gone.

 

Of course, with my upbringing, I would have already joined and sold my soul (as I've already done now...)

 

Dave

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