SSG David Fetty 3765326 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>17 years old, out of school and no hope of more education. Looking at being drafted in a year or two, or a job as a pump jockey or something the rest of my life. I wanted more. Talked to a Recruiter, took the Asvab and he told me I scored high enough to do anything I wanted. 1971, Viet Nam going on, I wanted something safe, and something that would give me a career when I got out. Air Traffic Controlling sounded like a winner, I&#39;d always loved planes. &quot;Well son&quot; the recruiter said, &quot;Air Traffic Control comes under Airborne&quot;. That sounds legitimate to me, signed up for 3 years. About 2 weeks later I found out that Airborne had nothing to do with telling the planes where to go, and I was going to be Infantry, a combat soldier, a Paratrooper. &lt;GULP&gt;<br /><br />. I decided then that I would take any school I was offered. At least if I was going to VN, I&#39;d have as much training as I could get to be better prepared. It took me from Mar 1971 to June 72 to be promoted to Buck Sergeant, have an Infantry Operations and Intelligence MOS, and be available for assignment to a line unit. Most Infantry MOS&#39;s only take 4 months before assignment to a line unit.<br /><br />I was blessed, so when you thank me for my service, I really feel like I&#39;m being thanked for stealing something valuable. 2018-07-04T02:25:38-04:00 SSG David Fetty 3765326

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>17 years old, out of school and no hope of more education. Looking at being drafted in a year or two, or a job as a pump jockey or something the rest of my life. I wanted more. Talked to a Recruiter, took the Asvab and he told me I scored high enough to do anything I wanted. 1971, Viet Nam going on, I wanted something safe, and something that would give me a career when I got out. Air Traffic Controlling sounded like a winner, I&#39;d always loved planes. &quot;Well son&quot; the recruiter said, &quot;Air Traffic Control comes under Airborne&quot;. That sounds legitimate to me, signed up for 3 years. About 2 weeks later I found out that Airborne had nothing to do with telling the planes where to go, and I was going to be Infantry, a combat soldier, a Paratrooper. &lt;GULP&gt;<br /><br />. I decided then that I would take any school I was offered. At least if I was going to VN, I&#39;d have as much training as I could get to be better prepared. It took me from Mar 1971 to June 72 to be promoted to Buck Sergeant, have an Infantry Operations and Intelligence MOS, and be available for assignment to a line unit. Most Infantry MOS&#39;s only take 4 months before assignment to a line unit.<br /><br />I was blessed, so when you thank me for my service, I really feel like I&#39;m being thanked for stealing something valuable.

2018-07-04T02:25:38-04:00 2018-07-04T02:25:38-04:00 SSG Laurie Mullen 3765351

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Dad was a WW II vet so I grew up on stories and war movies. I was sworn into the Reserves two weeks after my 17th birthday.

2018-07-04T03:05:02-04:00 2018-07-04T03:05:02-04:00 PO1 William "Chip" Nagel 3765359

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="839914" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/839914-pfc-david-fetty">SSG David Fetty</a> &quot;You Go to College, Make As and Bs and I&#39;ll Pay for It, Make C&#39;s and D&#39;s and You&#39;ll Pay for it or Join the Military&quot; My Father. &quot;I&#39;ll Join the Military&quot; &quot;I was Kidding&quot; Dad. &quot;I&#39;m Not&quot; Me. I was Tired of School I wanted to do something and I sucked at School. I was good with Electronics and I knew the Military would let me work on Electronics. Fortunately/Unfortunately I hadn&#39;t counted on the Amount of Schooling the Navy Would Put Me Through but I wasn&#39;t Disappointed. I got to Play with the Biggest, Most Expensive Tools Ever. From a PDP-11/70 to a 150ft Parabolic Dish Antenna. Sky was the Limit and being a Spook with a &quot;Black Budget&quot; nothing was Too Expensive for Us to Buy.

2018-07-04T03:23:53-04:00 2018-07-04T03:23:53-04:00 1SG Charles Hunter 3765721

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Decision? &quot;From the President of the United States, greeting...&quot; The alternative was moving to Canada, and I don&#39;t like cold winters.

2018-07-04T08:44:12-04:00 2018-07-04T08:44:12-04:00 SPC Benjamin Patterson 7756732

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>There&#39;s a few reasons why I joined. Reason #1) I had just graduated college and the recession hit, I spent 9 months looking for a job in the field I went to college for and didn&#39;t find anything and I had student loans to start paying back. Reason #2) I had always thought about from the time I was a kid and every man on both sides of my family has served including my father so I grew up in a military family in a way. Reason #3) My brother was going to join when he graduated and I wasn&#39;t going to let him show me up so when I signed up I shipped out 11 days later and I wrote letters to him every 2 weeks and told him about what to expect and what to focus on so when he shipped out he would know what&#39;s coming and how to handle it. Reason #4) once I found out what job I wanted and it was available this made me want to join a million times more. I was a 44B- Welder.

2022-07-02T19:34:57-04:00 2022-07-02T19:34:57-04:00 A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney 7756958

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I&#39;d Just Returned From Living In Central America And Had Nothing Else Planned Except To Join Up On My 17th Birthday....Best Frigge&#39;n Decision Of My Life...<br /> That&#39;s Where I Discovered About All Of The Business Programs Were Available And Every One Was FREE...<br /> In Short: I Took About 30 Various Programs Through USAFI &amp; NAVPERS, And 2 From Colleges.<br />Result: I Was Middle Management For FMC, (Purchasing Dept Director) Self Employed (Printing Businesses) For 27 Years &amp; Retired At 56.<br />Sure Beat The Crap Out Of Scrubbing Toilets In A McDonald&#39;s ....<br /><br /> AND, BTW, I Had A Great 4 Years Of Duty, Mostly Fun, Stationed In S. Korea With Several Trips To Japan,<br />And Loved The USAF, All At The Same Time....06/29/1961 - 06/10/1965......<br />Wasn&#39;t Even 21 Upon Honorable Discharge.. No Booze For 19 Days.... Ya, Right, !!

2022-07-03T00:18:00-04:00 2022-07-03T00:18:00-04:00 SMSgt Bob Wilson 7756995

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Why, my patriotic duty. What!? Yes, I had a stomach which needed food and to get the food, I needed money. So, Uncle Sam was paying $113 per month, all the food I could &quot;stomach&quot;. It reminded me of jail--three hots and a cot. The plus was when I got out I had a career which paid me good for the next 23 years. Then I went on the federal till again--Social Security. Of course, the &quot;draft&quot; didn&#39;t [sic!] have anything to do with my decision.

2022-07-03T01:16:15-04:00 2022-07-03T01:16:15-04:00 LTC Tom Jones 7757307

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Selective Service and on my 21st (Happy) birthday.

2022-07-03T09:22:57-04:00 2022-07-03T09:22:57-04:00 Lt Col Jim Coe 7757412

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Wanted to be a pilot from the time I was about 10 years old. Mom wanted me to go to college. Went to college, took AFROTC, graduated and commissioned, completed pilot training. Goal achieved.

2022-07-03T11:07:36-04:00 2022-07-03T11:07:36-04:00 PO2 Private RallyPoint Member 7757535

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The Draft Board!

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