[stevem]

I don't know about "macho." I do know I joined the Navy a lifetime ago to dodge the draft or so I have always said.

I became a sonar technician on a ship that was always on the go.

Much of my Navy time was spent as a janitor. Despite that I have thanked God ever since that there was a draft that motivated me into that course of action.

I met friends I still have. I amassed a lifetime of sea stories and saw, for real, places that could never have been a dream without the Navy.

I feel sorry for youngsters these days who don't have the same "forced" opportunity.

[Simon Green]

I can’t agree with a draft. I don’t support involuntary servitude.

[trebb]

I was passed over during the draft lotteries..then enlisted and spent 24 years in the AF...it may have saved my life/freedom by requiring a different way of “interacting”...