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

Graduated from Indiana University as a 2/LT. INFANTRY so never got a draft notice. Went to Vietnam as a Huey pilot.

I got my Selective Service card while I was in basic training during mail call. I asked one of the Drill Sergeants if I could borrow their lighter. He asked what for. I told him I was going to burn it. He gave me his lighter and I proceeded to burn it in front of everyone.

Never got one and didn't get a draft card until I ETSed. Sure caught hell st the induction center when we were told to turn in our draft cards. Enlisted the day I turned 18 and had to wait 3 1/2 months for a slot to open.

I got my draft notice in June 1966. My girlfriend and I and had a baby together and were intending to get married and she turned 18 later in the year. After getting the notice we decided to hurry up the wedding which we had on August 27, 1966 and 10 days later I reported for the draft. When they discovered I was married with 15 month old son and they weren’t drafting married guys with kids! I was pulled aside told I was waiting. They called my draft board in my hometown and they said draft me anyway as I wasn’t married when I got the notice. So I joined the line of all the guys being drafted at that moment. They went down the line, pointing at each guy saying “Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. The guy to my right went to the Marines and I got Army. I didn’t know at the time that I was very lucky but I was!

Never got one. In the 1970 (I think) lottery, my birthday got me #258, and they only went to around 200 that year. That same lottery my high school best friend "won" #5, he enlisted in the Air Force.

I was in college when I received an invite to have a physical in March 1968. Afterwards, I immediately started to scope out recruiters from all services with a desire to fly. The USAF and the USN said "no degree, no fly". The Army recruiter had me take a battery of tests, a Class I Flight Physical, and then I signed on for the 90 day delayed entry program before being carted off to Ft. Polk, LA for Basic Training. I graduated for the Army WORWAC training to be a warrant officer helicopter pilot. One tour in Vietnam flying 4 different airframes with 3 major units during the scale down of Vietnamization Program in 1970. I had an enjoyable flying career of 27 years.

I was on deployment in Vietnam with the Seabees when I received a notice from my draft board stating "I was now too old to be liable for military service". I already had completed ten years in the "Bees"..

I got mine while already on my 1st Tour!

I got mine while on my 1st tour in VN!

I entered the Delayed Entry Program in 1971. Completed Basic Training and AIT and received orders for VietNam. Took a short leave at home and opened a letter my mother told me came in the mail after I left for basic. Opened it, and lord and behold, draft notice. I took it to my hometown recruiter and never heard anything after that. I thought this was funny.