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To: MinorityRepublican

“””””Look at Vietnam. The government was able to conscript 2 million soldiers for the war.””””””

The draft didn’t change much for the Vietnam war. According to the Selective Service System, from 1954 through 1963 (peacetime) they drafted 1,327,343 men for military service, from 1964 through 1973, they drafted 1,840,650 men.


22 posted on 07/13/2024 9:44:42 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
The draft didn’t change much for the Vietnam war

I give you McNamara's Morons

McNamara's Morons

66 posted on 07/13/2024 10:46:28 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: ansel12
The draft didn’t change much for the Vietnam war. According to the Selective Service System, from 1954 through 1963 (peacetime) they drafted 1,327,343 men for military service, from 1964 through 1973, they drafted 1,840,650 men.

Careful. Hidden behind those numbers is that millions of young men volunteered before they were drafted, which was the intent of issuing individuals a draft number months before they were to be drafted.

115 posted on 07/13/2024 12:17:48 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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