I hate to disagree; I already had an exemption (4y I believe). I could not be drafted excerpt in times of national emergency, which the VN war was not. ;-)
Selective Service Classifications:
1-A Available for unrestricted military service.
1-A-O Conscientious objector available for noncombatant military service only.
1-C Member of the Armed Forces of the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service.
1-D-D Deferment for certain members of a reserve component or student taking military training.
1-D-E Exemption of certain members of a reserve component or student taking military training.
1-H Active Registrant (all registrants currently in the database have this classification)
1-O Conscientious objector to all military service. A registrant must establish to the satisfaction of the board that his request for exemption from combatant and noncombatant military training and service in the Armed Forces is based upon moral, ethical or religious beliefs which play a significant role in his life and that his objection to participation in war is not confined to a particular war.
1-O-S Conscientious objector to all military service.
1-W Conscientious objector ordered to perform alternative service.
2-A Registrant deferred in support of the national interest.
2-D Registrant deferred because of study preparing for the ministry.
2-S Registrant deferred because of collegiate study.
3-A Registrant deferred because of hardship to dependents.
3-A-S Registrant deferred because of hardship to dependents (separated).
4-A Registrant who has completed military service.
4-A-A Registrant who has performed military service for a foreign nation.
4-B Official deferred by law.
4-C Alien or dual national.
4-D Minister of religion.
4-F Registrant not acceptable for military service. To be eligible for Class 4-F, a registrant must have been found not qualified for service in the Armed Forces by a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) under the established physical, mental, or moral standards. The standards of physical fitness that would be used in a future draft would come from AR 40-501.
4-G Registrant exempted from service because of the death of his parent or sibling while serving in the Armed Forces or whose parent or sibling is in a captured or missing in action status.
4-T Treaty alien.
4-W Registrant who has completed alternative service in lieu of induction.
5-A Registrant who is over the age of liability (26) or if previously deferred (35)
Please note that 4-G applies only when the father or brother died “while serving in the Armed Forces or whose parent or sibling is in a captured or missing in action status,”
If your father dies “while serving in the Armed Forces,” you were exempt. If he died otherwise.
While waiting for an OCS class date at Ft. Knox, I ran a Reception Station platoon. Had at least 2-3 men a week want to get out of Army because they were a “surviving son.” Only one evey quaified, because the rest’s brothers or fathers had not died while in Service. The one’s father had died on Iwo Jima.
PS, My local draft board was FUBAR. I got a draft notice while on first tour in RVN, just before rotation.
While home, I showed up as summoned at 0700 in Class A uniform, just to break balls. Told the draft board civilians that I had bought my own uniform so I could “get through training more quickly and get to Vietnam faster.”
The recruiter who had signed me up 18 months earlier showed up. Told me to get my sorry dumb ass out of line.... then bought me breakfast.