[AT] OT Draft Exemption Exam

Mon Jan 20 22:13:07 PST 2020

I graduated high school in 70, at 16 and when the lottery came around 
for me, I had a number over 300, so I did not get drafted. I had several 
high school classmates that did not return.  My dad was a WWII vet, but 
he told me that if I enlisted to wait until I had my degree.  I have 
wished many times that I had served. Several years later I tried to 
enlist in the guard so I could get helicopter training.  At the time 
they had enough pilots and did not have a need for someone my age.   
Since I was a state employee and knew several of the guard pilots, I 
could have pushed things a little and got in.  I had just built my house 
and was in the middle of getting the farm back in order so I had to put 
that on hold....
Cecil

On 1/20/2020 10:36 PM, Phil Auten wrote:
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> I had several different deferments during Vietnam (never served). 
> First, when I registered for the draft at 18 I was still in high 
> school. While I was still in high school, I started electronics 
> school. I got a deferment for that. Then when I graduated from tech 
> school in '68, I went to work for Texas Instruments in their defense 
> division and received a different deferment. I was repairing radar 
> systems for the F4 Phantom, A7 Corsair II and P3 anti-submarine 
> aircraft. When the draft lottery came around in '69, I was already 21 
> and they were only drafting 19 year old guys. I had a high school 
> friend that was sent to Vietnam, He was pretty crazy before he 
> enlisted, but his experiences as a door gunner on a Huey changed him 
> drastically. Another of our mutual friends went to see him out in 
> California and he said that Butch had become pretty anti social and 
> really didn't want to see any of us. He came home physically intact, 
> not so much with his psyche.
>
> Phil in TX
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> On 1/20/2020 5:36 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>> My employer kept me out of Vietnam in the mid 1960's but I didn't 
>> know about it until I was told by someone later. Then when they did 
>> the lotteries in I think 1969 I was just barely too old to be 
>> included. I was born in 1942 but the lottery draws started including 
>> those born in about 1943 / 44 I believe.
>> I had some friends who went and some co workers who went. Some didn't 
>> come back... Most who came back were changed forever... One co worker 
>> enlisted after his younger brother was killed. I never heard anything 
>> of him again. I know nothing of his fate. I know that he had a wife 
>> and very young child.
>> A friend had gone and came back about 1968 or so and we were best 
>> friends for about 45 years. Our kids grew up together and we were all 
>> together constantly. Still he almost never talked about his time 
>> there. On very rare occasions when it was just he and I he would talk 
>> a bit. I never pushed him. I did learn that his job was to sneak way 
>> out into the hills and call in target locations, "forward spotter"? I 
>> forget. I do remember him once saying that if he had been there 100 
>> years that he would never have gotten used to waking up to machine 
>> gun fire... He has been gone about 5 or 6 years now I guess. As you 
>> get older time gets fuzzy... Diana and I currently board a horse for 
>> one of his daughters.
>>
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>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:39 PM <bradloomis at charter.net 
>> <mailto:bradloomis at charter.net>> wrote:
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>>     As was my father. 1 class short of dual engineering degrees in 4
>>     years at NC State, civil and mechanical. He spent the war
>>     developing sound tracking torpedoes for the Navy, spending time
>>     at sea.  As an engineer, not in uniform. He would have been in
>>     his 30s. Sadly polio killed him four months before I was born in 52.
>>     Brad
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>>     My dad was called up for WII, but didn’t serve. His boss made an
>>     argument that he was un-replaceable at his job and they needed
>>     him above everybody else. He was deferred from serving.
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