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https://www.sss.gov/About/History-And-Records/lotter1Mine was 226. A pretty safe number that year. If I had been born 2 hours and 2 seconds earlier, my number would have been 017....a definite see ya later number. I went in a little later anyway, but it was under my terms, not Uncle Sugar's and President Nixon's. 
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2017, 11:11:20 AM » |
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#41. I'm thinking it was the "lottery number". Yep got the GREETINGS from Uncle Sugar. Had to get a deferment to stay out of the infantry so I could prove citizenship to go in the AF. I had misplaced my papers. Army didn't care if citizen - warm body who didn't kiss the induction sarge - I was going to be a ground pounder. Born in Switzerland of American citizens - "naturalized". So I understood I couldn't be POTUS. NO wait, now I can!
My buddy was #2. If his mom coulda waited one more day he would have got #364.
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2017, 12:25:15 PM » |
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I have no idea what mine was. I didn't get mine until the last week of basic.  |
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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2017, 12:50:22 PM » |
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If I'd been eligible for the draft lottery in 1971 instead of busy being born that year my draft number would have been 73... And for those who don't remember their numbers, you can look 'em up here: https://www.sss.gov/About/History-And-Records/lotter1 |
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2017, 01:01:45 PM » |
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#38, the last year of the draft, I was in college. At the time, my priorities were not on the books, saw my draft # and went to see the recruiter, signed up. Told my two best friends and they joined with me. Have never regretted that decision.
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« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2017, 01:07:04 PM » |
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I knew I was top ten, which was deferred for college. Thanks to the chart supplied by Serk, I found I was #8 for a wooden rifle. Correct me if I misremember, but wasn't the draft halted in 1974?
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« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2017, 01:07:29 PM » |
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362, the same number my brother drew the year before. What are the odds of that happening? But it did.
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2017, 01:10:14 PM » |
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I knew I was top ten, which was deferred for college. Thanks to the chart supplied by Serk, I found I was #8 for a wooden rifle. Correct me if I misremember, but wasn't the draft halted in 1974?
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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2017, 01:14:27 PM » |
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Never had one. Enlisted in at seventeen and home at twenty.. I didn't even have a chance to burn a card  |
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« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2017, 01:40:35 PM » |
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92 in when I first became eligible . I just made their decision for them and enlisted.
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2017, 01:41:11 PM » |
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I graduated high school in 73 as a 17 yr old. I had to sign up for the draft. According to the chart, I got #17 but before getting the tap on the shoulder, Nixon had started calling our Vets home.
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2017, 02:16:52 PM » |
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They didn't have the lottery when I joined the AF in '67. Question is: Can you remember your Service number before they used SSN's.
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« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2017, 02:19:18 PM » |
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Didn't have one. Didn't get the notice (came to my parents home) while I was humping the jungles of SE Asia. Join the Corp at 17. Retired at 41. Battered but alive.
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« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2017, 02:27:43 PM » |
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I was #88. Torn up knees had them not want me.
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« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2017, 02:43:10 PM » |
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« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2017, 02:47:24 PM » |
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Don't remember mine but I volunteered for the draft to speed things up.....
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« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2017, 02:49:50 PM » |
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083 - but I had a 1Y deferment due to a pin in my leg.
Thing is that I wanted to get in and fly. Already had plenty of air time and was in college studying it.
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« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2017, 02:55:58 PM » |
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1971 - 317 (but my 2S, student deferment, was still good)
1972 - 332 (my 2S was only good to the end of the semester, but I never heard from them)
What I noticed in these first two years of college.... there were an awful lot of guys majoring in basket-weaving and skirt sniffing. With minors in spliff rolling and beer collecting. After the draft went away, most of them left college, but I strongly suspected they kept the identical academic pursuits.
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« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2017, 03:48:51 PM » |
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« Reply #19 on: February 08, 2017, 04:30:44 PM » |
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By memory I was thinking #19. I looked at the link and see it was #20. Joined the Navy.
I have a photo of me reading a copy of the Stars & Stripes. The headline says "Nixon Vows To Ends The Draft".
Was either Late `72 or early `73.
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« Reply #20 on: February 08, 2017, 04:44:03 PM » |
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They didn't have the lottery when I joined the AF in '67. Question is: Can you remember your Service number before they used SSN's.
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Mine and serks links take you to the same page. According to their charts, they used the same lottery numbers for birth years 1944 thru 1950 in the 1970 draft. |
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« Reply #21 on: February 08, 2017, 04:49:59 PM » |
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My number was 41. Knew a girl who worked in the selective service who said I'd be in Vietnam in about six weeks. Went for the physical and the doctors said my back was too messed up. 4F
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« Reply #22 on: February 08, 2017, 06:13:06 PM » |
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#76.
No expiration date on the card.
I still have it.
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« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2017, 06:16:57 PM » |
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"The last draft call was on December 7, 1972, and the authority to induct expired on June 30, 1973. The date of the last drawing for the lottery was on March 12, 1975. Registration with the Selective Service System was suspended on April 1, 1975, and registrant processing was suspended on January 27, 1976."
Man, that was a long time ago. How did it work? If I remember right, the only number that counted was the one pulled for your age year. Mine was 78, pulled on 3-8-73, a low number that would have been called for administration. The authority to induct ended 6-30-73, so I had 3 months of worry.
Nixon had already started the pulling out, but they left the lottery in force and the draft ran till 1-27-76
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« Reply #24 on: February 08, 2017, 06:19:19 PM » |
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132 but it didn't matter. Joined the Corp when I graduated from High School in 68. My career lasted 1 day. Out of high school, 6'5" 295#, bench press 400#. The Dr. said the Corp considered me Obese, go play college football and stamped my card 4F. Better college that the DMV I guess.
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« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2017, 06:51:33 PM » |
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I joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of seventeen. Never registered.
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« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2017, 06:56:47 PM » |
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Better college that the DMV I guess.
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« Reply #27 on: February 08, 2017, 07:01:04 PM » |
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I joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of seventeen. Never registered.
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« Reply #28 on: February 08, 2017, 07:14:51 PM » |
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« Reply #29 on: February 08, 2017, 07:30:19 PM » |
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Mine was 32
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« Reply #30 on: February 08, 2017, 07:39:53 PM » |
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Turned out good for me. I got to fly and spent 20 years in the Air Force.
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« Reply #31 on: February 09, 2017, 03:47:23 AM » |
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I have no idea. I was 24 years old when they got me in 1952. Didn't have money for college.
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« Reply #32 on: February 09, 2017, 05:15:55 AM » |
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#218 in the first year of the lottery. I had a 1A classification and had passed the physical. They got to #210 in my district that year. My roommate got #1 and I never saw him again.
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Never had one, I enlisted, and yes I remember my service number... Semper Fi..... |
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Don't remember if I had one or not. Got the letter from my "Friends and Neighbors" two weeks before I graduated from college in January '69. Rode over to Okla City from Tulsa with 35 other victims of the letter. Of the 36 to be inducted, only 6 made it. The rest of us got sent home. I received a 1Y rating due to gout. I did cheat a bit, drank two six packs of 3.2 good stuff before their blood test. Made the test for gout go out of sight.
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« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2017, 03:46:02 PM » |
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A couple of classmates talked me into joining figuring we would get drafted anyway. Two of us signed up delayed enlistment 16 Dec 71 and our number was drawn in Feb 72, I had 360 and my buddy got a 358. It was too late we reported for basic 22 Feb 72 he did his hitch and I did 23 years andstill serving as a DOD Civilian. No regrets!
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« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2017, 05:41:51 PM » |
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A buddy of mine enlisted in the Air Force convinced he was going to be drafted. They asked him where he wanted to go. He said anywhere but Viet Nam, so they obliged him and he went to Cambodia.
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When I went in they asked where I'd like to go. Surprised, I said I get a choice? They said, well no, needs of the service rule, but we always ask and sometimes we can accommodate you. I said I understood, and that anywhere on either coast would be great (thinking a more general request might bear fruit). I guess I wasn't specific enough because I got the coast of the Alabama river in Montgomery.  |
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When I went in they asked where I'd like to go. Surprised, I said I get a choice? They said, well no, needs of the service rule, but we always ask and sometimes we can accommodate you. I said I understood, and that anywhere on either coast would be great (thinking a more general request might bear fruit). I guess I wasn't specific enough because I got the coast of the Alabama river in Montgomery. At Maxwell? That's where I went for induction center. The entire time I was there, all I kept thinking about was Alice's Restaurant and the scene at the induction center. Shrink, I want to kill, I mean i wanna kill, I WANNA KILL, KILL, KILL.  |
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