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Posted on 10/14/2025 5:52:45 AM PDT by LouAvul
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There was no “draft number” in ‘67. Welcome to Viet Nam.
I still have my draft card, but served during 1967-1971.
When was the lottery instituted?
Yet, I was never called up.
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Very lucky for you. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Had you been called up, you would have never been the same afterwards ...
Me, I had a draft card.
But I fooled ‘em!
I joined the Marines!............
I was #3 but I had already volunteered and was serving when the lottery was instituted.
I remember it well. My draft number was number 1. A friend of mine, with a birthday two days different got a number of 365, as I recall.
There was no doubt for me, so I stayed in the ROTC program, switched from Air Force to the Army, and ended up in command of a Meteorology Team in California as the war in Vietnam ended.
I drew 366 in the first draft lottery. It was a fork in the road of my life. I avoided military service. Not sure that is a good thing now.
1969 I think. I was already serving by that time.
Graduated HS in ‘72. My lottery number was in the seventies. I applied for AFROTC to become a missile officer. One day during the spring ‘73 term the ROTC officer called a bunch of us in, said that no one was going to be drafted and they didn’t need us for non-flying positions. That was the extent of my military career.
I graduate HS in 71 too. Went into the Army two weeks after graduation. I don’t think they drafted anybody from the class of 71. If they did they were small numbers.
I remember sitting in my dorm room listening to the radio as they called the numbers.
I was #064.
I was #324, but not called-up.
My number was something like 252; but, I joined ROTC and became a commissioned officer in 1972. After Officer’s Basic Course in Oct-Dec of 1972, I was released to ready reserves. They didn’t want my MOS (Adjutant General Corps) because Nixon had signed force reduction orders. My ROTC emphasis was infantry, but my branch assignment was ADC because I had a Computer Science degree.
Oohrah! I had a draft card with a student deferment. I graduated college in 1968 with a commission in the Marine Corps. Did 13 months in RVN. And that guy who posted something about never being the same, he’s right. I was and still am much better for the experience.
I graduated from high school in 1972 and turned 18 in 1973. I remember registering for the draft in downtown South Bend, Indiana, and the lady behind the desk not believing me when I told her I was born in California. I think I was in the last draft lottery; my birthday was not in the top half, and, as it turned out, no one subject to the 1973 lottery got drafted.
AGC. Dyslexics of the world untie!
Correct!
“Had you been called up, you would have never been the same afterwards ...”
Much truth to that statement. I see you are former ASA. Even many of those that served in the 509th were never the same.
War, any war, changes a person for forever.
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