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

I was still in high school when I received my notice. Not planning on going to college, but wanting to be involved in a more technical field I talked to my dad who was an Army Vet. He suggested talking to the Air Force recruiter in town. So he and I went there. I got scheduled for the testing and had very high grades. So I signed up with them. Was assigned to the 1st. Civil Engineering Squadron at MacDill AFB as a site development specialist. Only did four years active, but wish now I had stayed 20.

I reported for induction and was sent home to wait for a waiver...too many speeding tickets! I got the waiver and was told to report for induction into the Army on Monday, May 16, 1966, but on Friday the 13th I enlisted in the Air Force. Spent four years and three months and got out and I've regretted it ever since.

I was a punk who just barely made it out of High School and my number was up. So my logic was, let them give me a job or enlist so I can pick my own job. That worked fairly well and at 19 I was assigned to a communications site that controlled all the nuclear weapons sites in Europe. That scares me more now than it did!!

Was in my first trimester of graduate school. BS degree in May of 68, started PhD program in September. Notice came a week before Thanksgiving with report date Jan of 1969. I believed in choice not chance. Tried for a direct commission in the Navy, but since I had not finished my first year of Grad School I was denied. Ended up auditioning at Ft Benjamin Harrison for a choice to be an Army musician. The E5 who ran the audition gave me the lowest passing score he had served in Vietnam Nam and Korea. Enlisted late Dec of 68 a week before reporting for the draft. I was an RA, not a US as were most of the musicians, certainly not a bunch of complainers. Plane ride to Ft Dix was mostly US - service or jail, i had feelings that Nam was not a good idea; but when asked to serve I did. Went back to grad school when 3 year enlistment was over. 4 years later got the degree. Now retired.

knew it was coming and I went................

Was in Nam 2nd tour WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I was off work the day before Christmas 1965 and went to find out my number at the draft board. They were closed for the holiday and as I was reading the sign saying so and mumbling out load a clerk came to the door. She checked her file cabinet and their I was. Got my letter first thing after Christmas just like she said. Great Christmas.

In at barely 17. No draft notice.

Signed up for naval air officer training as junior in college. Never got draft. Went in in September of 69. Great experience !

I never received a "Draft Notice". I stood the first lottery draft in 1968 and received 345 as my draft number; the Selective Service System only drafted to 90 that year and you only had to stand the lottery one year. So I would never have been drafted. I enlisted in 1972, became an officer in 1981 and retired in 2009. I did have to take my son to register when he turned 18 even though he thought that since there was no draft he didn't have to register. He enlisted in 2004 and served his 8 years.