mgkusmc Posted November 18, 2007 Share #1 Posted November 18, 2007 Check this out guys, ever wonder if you would have been drafted for service during Vietnam? Check out this generator that tells you if you would have been drafted http://www.backwash.com/content_frame.php?...p;retPath=top40 A score of 196 or below means you would have to report for service in the united states military. A score of 197 and above you are safe. Mike Kirby P.S. My score was 024 guess I'll see ya in the jungle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrei Posted November 18, 2007 Share #2 Posted November 18, 2007 My score was 120... but am not US national. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ww2vault Posted November 18, 2007 Share #3 Posted November 18, 2007 Drat, 175 for myself. Looks like i'll be seeing you in the jungle as well. Hah, you posted while I was typing my reply up Andrei, US citizen or not you still took the test. - Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrobertscv Posted November 18, 2007 Share #4 Posted November 18, 2007 145!!! Prime draft material!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo Posted November 18, 2007 Share #5 Posted November 18, 2007 I got 47!!! Man, that is pretty scary. Arch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeper704 Posted November 18, 2007 Share #6 Posted November 18, 2007 164 ........ reporting for duty, Sir! A Belgian draftee in the US Army going in the Vietnamese jungle ..... talking about international !!!! Erwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewA74 Posted November 18, 2007 Share #7 Posted November 18, 2007 My number was 223! Cool link. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gutkowski Posted November 18, 2007 Share #8 Posted November 18, 2007 83 looks like I would have been in there also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brig Posted November 18, 2007 Share #9 Posted November 18, 2007 277... guess I'd've had to go the old fashioned way...through the Marine Corps recruiting office Sign me up! Running throught the jungle with my M-16.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluejacket Posted November 19, 2007 Share #10 Posted November 19, 2007 I was #15. I'd have been a short timer (or dead) by the time any of you guys got there. Bluejacket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laury Allison Posted November 19, 2007 Share #11 Posted November 19, 2007 350 here...you guys don't forget to send a lot of patches back! Laury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlymb Posted November 19, 2007 Share #12 Posted November 19, 2007 083. Anyone have a bottle of insect repellant I can borrow? Greetz David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USMCR79 Posted November 19, 2007 Share #13 Posted November 19, 2007 218....I think I would have joined the Reserves Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFloyd Posted November 19, 2007 Share #14 Posted November 19, 2007 I was #301. Unfortunately, I was also in Officer Training School when the numbers came out. Eighteen months later, I was in Vietnam. We were between classes when someone got the newspaper with the numbers. One of the guys in my flight (he had just started an architecture firm in Minneapolis) walked in, asked his number, said "See ya'" and dropped out that day. He was well over 300 in the list. That happened in every squadron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brig Posted November 19, 2007 Share #15 Posted November 19, 2007 I was #301. Unfortunately, I was also in Officer Training School when the numbers came out. Eighteen months later, I was in Vietnam. We were between classes when someone got the newspaper with the numbers. One of the guys in my flight (he had just started an architecture firm in Minneapolis) walked in, asked his number, said "See ya'" and dropped out that day. He was well over 300 in the list. That happened in every squadron. hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrei Posted November 19, 2007 Share #16 Posted November 19, 2007 Drat, 175 for myself. Looks like i'll be seeing you in the jungle as well. Hah, you posted while I was typing my reply up Andrei, US citizen or not you still took the test. - Jeff Well, I would have worn a jungle jacket for real... When my cousin Illya joined the Foreign Legion in 1972, one of his DI was a German NCO who was in Vietnam with the Marines. The 173rd Abn paratrooper standing bareheaded in the famous picture "The Agony of War" is a German national and Foreign Legion veteran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveR Posted November 19, 2007 Share #17 Posted November 19, 2007 I had a draft deferment. I volunteered in 1966. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steindaddie Posted November 19, 2007 Share #18 Posted November 19, 2007 I got a 41 !!!!!! I'm off to study abroad. (Or afemale) Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88thcollector Posted November 19, 2007 Share #19 Posted November 19, 2007 I know the draft ended officially in 1973 but I think the last call ups were earlier than that. I turned 18 in 1973 and I recall that the draft was of some concern earlier but I don't remember really worrying about it much. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinb Posted November 19, 2007 Share #20 Posted November 19, 2007 #155. I'm bringing my own cleaning kit for my new M16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunbarrel Posted November 19, 2007 Share #21 Posted November 19, 2007 I know the draft ended officially in 1973 but I think the last call ups were earlier than that. I turned 18 in 1973 and I recall that the draft was of some concern earlier but I don't remember really worrying about it much.thanks I drew 151. I turned 18 in the fall of '72, right after I graduated from High School and I knew I would be drafted. A buddy of mine whose Dad had done three tours in Viet-Nam said that it would be best if I went in as an Officer, so check on ROTC. I did (at the local Junior College where I was going to school) and when they told me that I needed to come up with $75 for the uniform I said "screw it," let them draft me. Keep in mind that my car payments back then were $52/mo, so $75 was a LOT of money. The next year they put the draft on hold and that was the end of that. In '74 they reclassified me to 1H and gave me Random Seq. No. 065. Even lower--don't know why. Of course, by that time they weren't drafting. By the way, Andrei, it didn't matter if you were a US citizen, or not. If you were a legal resident (i.e. you had a "blue card"), your butt was going US citizen, or not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bank Vault Posted November 19, 2007 Share #22 Posted November 19, 2007 310, I'm safe but I would've went anyways if I could. How do they determain by your birthday anyhow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VALERY Posted November 19, 2007 Share #23 Posted November 19, 2007 169 An other frenchy in the boonies, Andrei, we're in the same foxhole! Val Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgkusmc Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share #24 Posted November 19, 2007 310, I'm safe but I would've went anyways if I could. How do they determain by your birthday anyhow? Well what they did was they put every date of the year in a jar or glass bowl and started drawing at random and each date was given a numerical number as it was drawn i.e. if January 1st was drawn 1st then it got the draft number 1 if October 5th was the 24th date drawn it got the draft number 24 and so on. Once all drawn and given a number they would pull that draft number out and call up everyone on that birthdate that was eligible for the draft for service and this would go on until they no longer needed people. It stopped at draft number 196. Hope that answers your question. Mike Kirby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disneydave Posted November 19, 2007 Share #25 Posted November 19, 2007 143. Do they have West Nile Virus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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