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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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Really an interesting thread; kudos...I would have been drafted for sure at 41...no way to treat a guy born on Veteran's Day.
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Back in that time period, most of the kids going to College were from wealthier families, unless you were an exceptional student. That started to change in the the mid to late 70's - post Vietnam War.
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I do wonder what the reasoning for that was. I don't particularly see a justification for it. In five minutes of looking, I don't see evidence of college deferments before Vietnam. Anyone know if that was introduced in the Vietnam draft or if it happened in earlier wars?
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I always thought that war was where we sent the dregs of society to die.
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In answer to another question, yes, if you were enrolled in college, you got a 2-S deferment. If you quit or flunked out, you were reclassified 1-A within 30 days. I saw a few of those. When the lottery started in 1969, you had 10 days to resign your 2-S and go with the number you were dealt, knowing you only had to worry about that year. With my 287 and a flunked ROTC physical behind me, I did that. If you didn't you kept your number and when you ended your college, you went to 1-A and were subject to the draft in that year. I guess I was lucky that I was in the first lottery because there were so many of us that they only got to something like 180 that year. |
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I was lucky......my year and the year before my number would have been 353 and 307 respectively.
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