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SGM Senior Adviser, National Communications
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SGM (Join to see), I definitely remember the draft, but I'm just a little too young to have had a number. The draft was all over the news, along with Vietnam, when I was growing up. (Also, draft dodgers, draft card burning, fleeing the draft by traveling/moving to Canada ... just a couple of things the draft reminds me of.)
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I had a high number and would not have been drafted in 1972-75. I remember when my roommate in College was drafted! I was also in ROTC but he was not.
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CSM Bryan Seale
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I remember the draft in fact I received a greetings from Uncle Sam in February '66. I went ahead and enlisted.
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PO1 Mike Wallace
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I have to be honest here. I was a draft dodger.
I enlisted at 17 and did not get a draft card until I was 21 and it showed me as a 4A. A year 1968 later I reenlisted and put my draft card away. Came across it when we moved a few years.
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Do you remember the draft? Did you have a draft number?
SPC William Richardson
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yes i remember the draft and my number was 47 in 1972 then got my greetings and went ahead and enlisted for a guaranteed MOS and then got lucky and was sent to Germany
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MSG Stan Hutchison
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I do not know why I was not drafted. I turned 18 and registered in 1960. I enlisted in 1964.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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The draft was sure in full use in `1966 but enlisted in the Air Force at age 18 one month after I graduated from High School.
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SPC Ben Maddox
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Drafted in June, 1965, and I will never forget my Service Number. Don't know about the "draft number."
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SGT Kevin Hughes
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Yep. I enlisted in the Army National Guard on my 18th Birthday in 1969. Knowing I would get a draft notice. After almost a year on either Riot Duty, College riots, National Teamsters Strike , Race Riots, I went Active Duty. I told the First Sergeant I didn't join the Army to point weapons at Americans. They sent me to Germany...and guess what, I got Riot Duty again. Sigh.
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SSG Gordon Holmes
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The draft was winding down when I enlisted at 17.
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CPL Larry Frias Jr
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My father was my draft board …he drafted me and my brothers …
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