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Draft Rules For Vietnam In Chicago
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~ The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old. 12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old. ~ 5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
Around one-third of the military during the Vietnam War were indeed draftees, roughly 1.8 million. Early in the sixties, 23 was the average age of an inductee, but as the war went on, they got younger, falling to almost 20 in 1966.
A lottery drawing – the first since 1942 – was held on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970; that is, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950.
All male U.S. citizens and immigrant non-citizens who are between the ages of 18 and 25 are required by law to have registered within 30 days of their 18th birthdays, and must notify the Selective Service within ten days of any changes to any of the information they provided on their registration cards, such as a ...
A Brief History of the Vietnam Draft. In the early 1960s, nearly all 18 to 26-year-old male U.S. citizens and most noncitizens living were required to register for the draft. Following registration, the U.S. Selective Service (SS) classified registrants as available for service, deferred, or ineligible for service.
Before the lottery was implemented in the latter part of the Vietnam conflict, there was no system in place to determine order of call besides the fact that men between the ages of 18 and 26 were vulnerable to being drafted. Local boards called men classified 1-A, 18-1/2 through 25 years old, oldest first.
The various exemptions which draft-eligible men could use to avoid service, such as still being in university education or being medically unfit, were thought to allow better-connected and middle class men to evade the draft more easily than working class or minority men.
The United States military conscripted approximately 1.9 million service personnel into their ranks over the course of the Vietnam War. Commonly known as the draft, conscription had been conducted in the U.S. through the Selective Service System (SSS) since 1917.
Most of U.S. soldiers drafted during the Vietnam War were men from poor and working-class families. These were young men who were not going get a college deferment, have a political connection, or have a family doctor that could give them a medical deferment.
Myth: Common belief is that most Vietnam veterans were drafted. Fact: 2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were drafted. Approximately 70% of those killed in Vietnam were volunteers.
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The last draft call was on December 7, 1972, and the authority to induct expired on June 30, 1973. You registered for the draft at your local draft board usually in your hometown within a few days of your 18th birthday.Under the law, virtually all male US citizens, and male aliens living in the US, who are ages 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service. This is going to happen between (probably) 1966 and 1968, before the draft lottery. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which successive presidents used as a blank check for their military actions in Indochina. In 1968, Bill Davidson examined the effects of the draft and the internal struggle of thousands of young men who were called to serve. Selective Service Acts, US federal laws that instituted conscription, or compulsory military service. Both the Union and the Confederacy passed conscription laws during the Civil War. One second after midnight, married men would no longer be exempt from the draft. Those married before midnight would be.