[Robert DeLong]

Yes, I am old enough to have lived through being included in the draft, and even somewhat disappointed that a got a draft number of 364. Even if I was in no rush to enter the military. I was patriotic enough to accept the possibility. Almost joined, but my desired MO was closed. So, I took off to see my country. 🙂👍

[ansel12]

I think that was fairly common, guys who were uncertain about serving and also being occupied with just being young often just let the fates decide for them, ‘if they got called they went, if they didn’t get called they didn’t went’.

[Myrddin]

I registered at age 18. I was taking junior sequence courses at UCSD. My card came back with a 1H. The next year when I was 19, I received a 1A card. I watched as the lottery was pulled. My birthday came up 319. A low number would have pressed me to OCS with an interest in Chem/Bio/Nuke related work. The OCS path never happened, but the alternative did as a civilian DoD contractor.

My father was a US Navy Commander with 25 years service when they pulled my lottery number.