Draft number.

[Calaveras Slim]

Never had a number.

Volunteered in Feb. 62, served for 22 years and retired in Apr. 84.

Didn't go to Canada

Didn't dodge

Just did my duty. I was one of the 3%

 

[steelslaver]

My birthdays number was in the high 300s but it didn't mater. I was already in the Marines when the lottery came out. I have never had a draft card either. I went in the Marines when I was 17 before I got a card. By the time I got my final discharge the draft registration was over and got never started again till I was to old.

 

[MaricopaKid]

Never had a number. I joined on the delayed entry program at 17 in 1967. Graduated high school in June, turned 18 in July. By mid-August I had miraculously turned from a long-haired surfer boy to a buzzed-cut maggot.

 

[vonn]

I was discharged in December of 1968 and never even checked to see what number I was. One of our past President's was a dodger,pretty disgraceful,but no one asked me.

 

[Brian41]

I guess I win as my number was two in 1972. I went for my draft physical that summer and was sent home and told to be ready to go January 1.
I did some soul searching and decided to enlist Air Force as they promised me a job and training in communications. I enlisted January 2 and was sent home and to report for basic in March. I was in the reserves until then and safe from the draft. On the way home from there Nixon came on the AM radio and said the draft would end after this last batch I was in were drafted. They didn't take too many so don't know if I'd been drafted or not.
After training for a year in Biloxi I volunteered for Europe and got an assignment at a site in Italy where I served two years. Soon after I got there I got orders for a TDY to help with the pull out in Vietnam. Since I was on a TDY in Germany at the time for additional training those orders were rescinded.

 

[dave holl]

The Vietnam era was a scary time for people our age(60-70)....don't remember what my number was, but here's my story.
In 1967 I had been teaching mathematics for a year with a teaching deferment, and wanted to work on a Masters degree and PhD. I applied to a bunch of schools for a teaching fellowship where you teach undergraduates while attending classes. The University of Montana offered one to me. Before accepting I called my Ohio draft board and they said that when I changed from teacher to student they would call me for a physical.
Not being a risk-taker I declined the fellowship and finished a Masters degree at The Ohio State University, and missed the hunting and fishing opportunities in Montana.
We all have regrets.........I regret that decision, wound up teaching for 40 years, didn't get a PhD, and still trying to shoot my first elk. ( skunked in Colorado 3 times)
Those degrees are over rated anyways.................
BS = bull s***

MS = more of the same

PhD = piled higher and deeper

Dave

 

[sheepdawg]

Class of 72, I was number 52, my best buddy was number 364. Good reason to go to college.

 

[ordy]

I was in Viet Nam when that system was put into place. Never knew my number.

 

[Evil Dog]

Don't know if I ever actually had a number.... even a draft card for that matter. Graduated HS in Jun '64 and enlisted in the AF 5 months later. Bien Hoa, RVN Jun '66 to Jun '67.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Class of '73,I was very relieved!

Ditto here, class of '73

 

[CajunBass]

I haven't thought about it for years, so I looked it up. It would have been 150.

I do remember that they had already announced they wouldn't be taking anyone with a number higher than...Oh, I don't remember for sure...maybe 89 or so.

That ended my plans to join Uncle Sams boat club when I graduated high school.

I'm kinda sorry I didn't now, looking back at it.

 

[Bastogne71]

#2 But I was ROTC (active reserve) so it didn't matter. Vietnam with 101st Airborne Oct 70-71.

 

[Backlighting]

No draft# for me in '67. Just a letter stating I was to report for active duty. The lottery wasn't in place yet.

 

[chaparrito]

Remember it about as well as I remember the rest of college. A bunch of us got drunk watching it on the news. I drew 228, never got called and was given a 1Y (?) shortly after.

 

[DWalt]

Don't remember but high enough that I was far out of the running. So I went back to grad school At Ohio State.

 

[bullmack]

Early 1969. Flunked out of college. Got married with child on the way, hauled in for a physical, got a number up around 270. Still married to the same wonderful woman.

Just looked it up on line and my number was 254

 

[LoboGunLeather]

I don't remember the number but I remember receiving my notice to report for pre-induction physical while I was at Dong Ha, Vietnam. Showed it to my first sergeant, told him I had to go home right away or I would be in big trouble. That didn't work.

 

[sigp220.45]

I was number 8 in 1970. Good thing I was 11 years old.

 

[H Richard]

Don't know if I had a number, but just after graduating from HS in 59 I enlisted in the USAF. Spent time in 11 different countries before my discharge in 63. Yes, I got out just as the big build up for Nam. I have accessed my DD214 quite a few times since. Having a small disability they have taken care of me well, and I take advantage of the free combo hunting/fishing license through the Illinois Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

 

[Rogue Wizard]

1971, Watching in the student union on TV. I can STILL remember the rolling screen. I came up #316. My friend standing next to me went weak in the knees. I looked up and watched for his birthday. Then took a big gulp. I think he enlisted to avoid being a ground-pounder. I still have my draft card. Found it in some stuff a few moths back. Remember you had to carry it?
Here is a website if you were in the 70/71/72 lottery
The 1970, 1971 and 1972 Draft Lotteries for the Vietnam War