Dick Roeper
Posted on 08/28/2007 8:36:11 AM PDT by JOAT
Ted Nugent gave an interview this morning on a local station and specifically stated that he "registered for the draft" and that they simply "didn't call my number."
He hammered the 'journalists' who reported that he had reported to the draft board caked in his own waste.
I listened to him say these quotes in response to direct questions.
He’s an old guy, eh?
see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887384/posts?page=8#8
(from yesterday’s mayhem)
hehehe....
born in 1948......should have been drafted before any numbers were drawn for the draft lottery which began in 1971. People were drafted at age 19 way more often than at 20. He turned 20 in Dec 1968. Something stinks about him claiming “his” “Number” didn’t “come up”.
Parse it as you like.
BS. Nugent bragged about this a very long time ago, long before his most recent forays into being controversial. This is one of those things where I wish I had saved the link from a few years ago.
Dick Roeper
A little googling reveals:
Ted Nugent birthday - Dec 13, 1948
1969 Lottery - Dec 13 number was 163
Just because there was a draft does not mean everyone was called - even before the lottery.
Nugent couldn’t make the physical, he fell ill with a bad case of cat-scratch fever as I recall ...
google all you like.
I was drafted at age 19 + 6 weeks in Sep 1966.....fact is I taken the physical and had my notice “Greetings” letter from the draft board even BEFORE I turned 19. The same was true for all the others who had never had anything but a 1_A classification who reported for induction that day. There is only 30 miles between Nugents draft board in Ann Arbor and mine. If he was 1-A and turned 19 in Dec 1967, he would have been drafted during early 1968. Remember, this timeframe was the “buildup”.
He pulled some stunt or otherwise became “not 1-A”. Lottery has NOTHING to do with it!
That is an awful disease. A person really suffers with it.
I went back with my daughter in 2000.
I'm convinced we're winning and will yet "win" the Vietnam War, depending on whether we win the WOT.
"It ain't over 'till it's over."
Americal, eh? My orders were to the 196th, but when I actually got to 93rd Repl, they were changed to 1st Inf Div (1/26th) because the Ropeburners had already gone upcountry to form the Americal.....small world......the only place being a US hassled me was in the chow line......supposedly 2nd class, but not like ER or NG, LOL.
I can only speak from experience. I graduated from high school May 1966 and immediately applied for and was accepted in a local junior college. I attended college for less than a month before dropping out at the end of September 1966. The college notified the draft board immediately. I lost my student deferment within a few weeks and was reclassified 1-A by my local draft board. I was notified to report for a physical the last week of October. I enlisted in the Marine Corps when it became inevitable that I would be inducted.
Local draft boards were given quotas each month dictating the number of men to be drafted. I realize these numbers varied from place to place.
Obviously not everyone was drafted but most men classified 1-A went for a physical.
I imagine Nugent’s records might be accessed through Freedom of Information which I’m sure the news media will now attempt.
My number was #007 Oct 26th in the 69 draft. I got my draft notice at NAS Kingville Texas where I was stationed as a member of training squadron VT-23. It was good for a chuckle or two ...
On the other hand I was born in 57 and I remember our gym teacher in high school telling us that we had to go to the Post office and register for the draft. Me and my buddies all went down and registered. I was a little scared. However we pulled out of Nam before my number came up.
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