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John H.[_5_]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:42:59 -0400, wrote:

On 25 Mar 2018 10:14:07 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:

wrote:
On 24 Mar 2018 21:53:24 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:

Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/24/2018 5:26 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:29:53 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 3/24/18 1:21 PM, wrote:

BTW the army did draft people in your position, if they had critical
skills. My buddy was drafted within months after graduating because
they wanted computer guys ... and he was married with a kid.
Evidently they had all of the liberal arts people they needed.

Right, because what use would the military have for someone with
language skills in Russian and German, and knowledge of group dynamics
(sociology), and skills to teach English to nincompoops. I'm happy the
military had no use for me.

Evidently not. If they really thought you had something they needed
they would have drafted you. They certainly had no need for a liberal
arts style of group dynamics and the only thing they wanted to say in
Russian is "You better stay in Russia or we will **** you up".

Oh...you think draft boards thought beyond filling a quota. That’s a laugh.
A member of a KC draft board who worked at the paper told me all they were
looking for were young men who could pass the preinduction physical with
reasonable health. Once they met their quota, they stopped looking. Period.
Perhaps the standards were a hair higher for enlisted. Perhaps.

So you had a thyroid condition back then too?

Nope, just not stupid. In college, for b.a. and m.a., reclassified after
that, not drafted (I was about 23 then), and got a high lottery number.
Delighted.

Math seems to say if you were 23 in 1970, the first year they had
draft lottery numbers (actually issued in Dec 1969), you were born in
1947. That certainly does not match the rest of the story. You have
alluded to being born before 1944 so you would have been 25+ when you
got a lottery number. The draft was over if you were 26 and most 25
year olds were not bother by it either.

Math is not your strength.

Correct me then without contradicting things you have said.
If you got a lottery number at 23, you could not have been born before
12/2/45, assuming you turned 24 the next day.
The first lottery number was issued 12/1/69
69-24=45.
You have alluded to being "a few" years younger than me so that means
43 or 44 is more likely. If it was 43 you did not get a number at all.

Math is not harreee's strength.