RE: German volunteers and an American Hero
Posted by:
Craig McLean
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Date: July 08, 2001 07:15PM
<HTML>Regarding the draft. Most of the U.S. Vietnam War was served by the draft. The way it worked was, once drafted, you had a certain time period to voluntarily enlist in any of the services (USAF, USM, USA, etc.)...and thereby got to choose your field of endeavor, but for a longer period of service than if drafted. If you opted to be drafted (Army only), you had no choice of infantry, armor, medic, cook, finance clerk, or whatever. You went where you were sent, according to the needs of the Army at the time.
According to your birthdate, you got a random number, that was then drawn \"from a hat\", so to speak, each month or whatever. Numbers were then called up in order from lowest to highest, to fill quotas, by state (in turn, broken down by counties, as I recall).
This is the best I remember...I was a volunteer, myself...about 30 years ago now....
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According to your birthdate, you got a random number, that was then drawn \"from a hat\", so to speak, each month or whatever. Numbers were then called up in order from lowest to highest, to fill quotas, by state (in turn, broken down by counties, as I recall).
This is the best I remember...I was a volunteer, myself...about 30 years ago now....
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