BoatBanter.com - View Single Post

Justan O.

On 11/8/20 6:14 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 10:18:16 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 11/8/20 9:56 AM, Tim wrote:

Just some gee whiz info
https://www.historynet.com/whats-your-number.htm

I would have been over 200 but by then I was 13 months from being
discharged from a 6 year enlistment.

There was a local kid who inlisted and served a tourthen was duly discharged. 4 months later he got a draft notice. LOL

I'm sure I would remember my lottery number if whatever number I had
resulted in me being called in for that pre-induction physical. I don't
even remember getting a number. I assume you found out from a letter
sent by either a federal agency or the local draft board. I think I
remember getting a letter my senior year of high school that said I had
to register for the draft but I never received any communication once my
draft status was 2-S, so I never had to get a friendly doctor write a
letter for me that claimed I was suffering from "bone spurs."

So you just stayed II-S until you were too old. That makes sense.
The lottery was in Dec 1969 so you missed it if you were born 1943 or
earlier.

Fat boy was spawned in 1944.