What were your feelings and thoughts when you first opened your draft notice?

Took a break from school! Totally forgot the draft was on, month later got a call from director of selective service, my rural town that he placed my draft in the mail. Decided to become RA and joined Army. Got my hair flat topped before basic and enjoyed the ride in spite of Vietnam because of the doors that opened and getting a commission. Being a Calvary pilot highest honor.

I was AX2 1st tech in the PI flying crew on a P3. I just took it to legal and dropped it off do not know what they did with it.

I guess, I missed this discussion. Age 19 , married 3 months, several HS friends alread killed in Vietnam War, dads & uncles who had served in WWII & Korea, and living in economically poverty; I said "it my time to serve." After sharing my draft notice with my wife, I told her I was going to enlist and try to better our lives. Went to the Marines but they were not taking married men, went next door to the Air Force and they swore me in. The rest is history for our family.

I was funny to me. I was in Air Force Basic Training at the time.

Never got one that I remember. Maybe because I was classified "Conscientious Objector" so, after I tried to enlist in he Corps, I had to meet with the entire local draft board to explain why the classification was no longer accurate. ...took about an hour.

After reading the comments below and seeing so many like me, received their notice while in Nam, I have often wondered if the DRAFT BOARD ever got their act together, or is that why the DRAFT was done away with? Guess we will never know for sure. Welcome home guts and gals. Job well done, even if the journalist and th politicians would not let us win in Nam. We did our jobs in spite of opposition from the VIET NAM CLOWNS at home.

Seeing so many folks below had received their DRAFT NOTICES after serinv in NaM, i HAVE OFTEN WONDERED IF THE draft board

Was still in high school and tried to join up. My father a retired SFC who saw service in WWII, Korea and Vietnam got wind of it and had that recruiter transferred somewhere else. I did it the right way the next year, delayed entry, graduated high school Monday night was at Ft. Knox, Ky Wednesday night, Thursday morning. My dad was a smart man

I get my notice & appeal for legit reason. Go to the Board hearing in suit & tie, wait quietly while Board hears before me, & finally mine turn comes. I approach.the Board & answer every question. At end of the table is elderly man who stares right they me. He asks: "Is your father xxxxx?" Yes sir I say. "That's all I need to know!" Me? Next stop: Fort Dix. To this day, I have idea what the connection with my father was. So, in an E1/out an O-4, w/vacation in Dakto. Hmmm, thanks Dad☺

I laughed when my folks sent me my DRAFT Notice. I was, my fifth year in service, in Nam in the Delta region. I wrote on it: Get me out of Nam and I will come to you. Never get a return from them.