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

I was already on active duty with the Navy as a brand-new Ensign. I typed up a letter to the board and in about two sentences said I would be unable to report - already under orders to a new duty station. I was committed to service from August 1964 when I took my first oath as a Midshipman. My stance on the war was that I had a job to do, that other people would be depending on me to do that job well, and that my opinion would not matter. My parents and I never discussed the war- my father was a WW2 Army Air Force vet, my uncles were WW2 vets, I had a cousin who was a Korean War vet ... you get the picture. Discussion was not on the agenda.

I didn't get a draft notice. I joined the Army 7 month after high school. At that time I didn't think anything about Vietnam. My brother & I are the only one's of all our relatives that ever joined the Military.

was through with basic and about 2 weeks into ait. was told by di's to ignore. 72to77

The FBI showed up at my parent's house looking for me when I missed reporting to the Board. My mother smiled nicely and told them they could find me at Basic Training in Fort Know, KY. She said the agents turned a tad red, thanked her for her time, about faced and left.

Never got one. Enlisted at 17 during my Junior year in High School - Naval Reserves. Immediately upon graduating, I switched to the Regular Navy. AFTER discharge (before enlisting in the Army) I went to the local Draft Boarr for giggles and signed up for the draft.
The lady there told me I was in serious trouble ... I laughed and walked out. A month or so later, I received a Draft Card and for more giggles, and to my Mom's horror, I burned it.

I never got a draft notice per se. I was married with a kid at 17. But by the time I was 20, we were separated and my ex-wife kept turning me into the draft board. My business had gone under and I was alone so I enlisted in the Army, best thing I ever did for my future. I was a High School dropout that finally availed myself of opportunity provided and made good

I was able to avoid the draft! I volunteered when I was seventeen years old. Never received a draft notice. My grandparents were against me joining for fear I would get killed. Neither of my biological grandparents served. My step-grandfather was enlisted and was a pilot in WWII so he understood my call to duty. My father didn't serve (he got married at sixteen with a child on the way). I really didn't care what anyone thought about me joining the military but I knew I wanted to join the Marines. I felt it was my patriotic duty to protect our country and help those that the United States protected.

Was my best option as an orphaned boy.. streets at 13.. hitched across America in 68..Drill Sgt & God ...

I registered in 1970. I was given five 4F ratings and told that I could never serve in any branch. I went home and started a business. Two years later I was drafted. I couldn't sell thee business before I had to report for basic. I lost about $20,000. I was not a happy camper. My DI knew about the now missing 4F and kept trying to get me to fight him. I started playing mind games on him, I caused our Captain to chew him out, then I scared the hell out of him when I casually picked up the heavy coil of rope used for tug of war and tossed it up on a flatbed truck. The worst thing was I was ready to propose to my girlfriend the day that it arrived. We never really got back together, after that.

I never signed up for the draft. I was already under contract with the Navy as a 17 year old in December 1972. Nixon ended the draft in January 1973. I was told I was the youngest person to volunteer to serve in the military during the active period of the Vietnam War. 17 years 2 months and 12 days old.