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

My Dad was a career Air Force Chief Master Sergeant and insisted that I attend a college with mandatory ROTC. So off I went to North Georgia College. I lasted 2 quarters and decided that I could get paid to wear the uniform. I just wasn't ready for college and had no idea what I wanted to do. I enlisted in the Army on 1 Dec 1965 and, like others, was in BCT when I got my draft notice. I laughed and call the draft board in Rome, GA because I knew one of the ladies. She straightened it out for me.

I was fortunate to be in and out of the Navy before this became an issue, separating Active Duty in September of '62. I've been thankful ever since, that I got fired from my first job after high school. I turned 18 in Boot Camp, and never did register with Selective Service.

What time did the Air Force recruiter open in the morning!

Well this sucks.

I had a lot to loose and did!!!!!!!!! fianc'''e business and for what?????

I joined after Vietnam but, I wanting to say THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE! Without your sacrifices, we wouldn't have had a solid foundation.

Vietnam was the furthest from my mind when I volunteered for the Draft in January 1960. I figured two years of duty would serve me well at first. I entered the Army 3 Feb 1960 and took basic at Fort Knox in the dead of the winter. Almost killed me, but I survived.
I didn't get to Vietnam until Feb 1971.

I was seventeen when I enlisted. It was either go in to the military or wind up in jail.

Never received one. But I enlisted in the Army at age 18 (Delayed Entry program), until I finished high school. Graduated and left 2 months later... Once I finished my Active Duty tour and came home I signed up for the Selective Service.

I had no idea what I was getting into when I joined the USN back in Aug 71... I had a rather childish notion of a Bosun's Mate in Whites on the Fo'c'sle of a destroyer making some fanciwork or something along those lines... But I had no real thoughts on the war in Viet Nam... Heck I was only 18 back then...