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New Poll: White House Most Corrupt
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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. I do not think harry is that old. I was born in 1943, and got a draft notice. Lottery only applied to 1944 and younger. I count as an enlisted soldier as I knew there was a draft notice with my name out there. Mom had moved and they sent it to old address. I was in NCR school when I took the draft physical, but got extended for,my re training so they lost track of me. When I contact3d draft board I had until April induction call to join service I wanted. |
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