Old draft cards

[twoeagles]

For you volunteer service folks, here is my draft card from the days
we were NOT all volunteer. The good news story was that I was allowed
to finish my aeronautical engineering degree, and I reported to Pensacola
in 1974. It was incentive to keep my grades above 3 point oh!

Any of you other old dogs have yours?

 

[syscom3]

I missed the draft by a few years. But I was among the first to be required to register. This was in 1978.

20 years after that, when I had to fill out a form for a low level govt security clearance, I had to report the registration number. They even provided a phone number where you could call to get it.

I wonder how many idiots didn't register like they had to, and then find out the consequences of it decades later?

 

[Erich]

well my cousins moved to Canada and then moved back once Nam was over.......wimps

just my opinion gents

 

[mkloby]

Tom you just keep pulling out relics from the past... pictures, draft cards... I vaguely remember filling out that selective service card. Checked it online to verify that I did. Guess it doesn't matter anymore, does it! They got me!

 

[timshatz]

They got me!

Went through something of the same thing. Didn't register when I turned 18. Not for any political reason, just too lazy. Finally, I joined up. A year later, when I was home on leave, they called and asked why I hadn't signed up. I told them I was already in.

I thought/guess that ended it.

I think.

Too late now anyway, over the 42 cutoff.

 

[timshatz]

They got me!

Went through something of the same thing. Didn't register when I turned 18. Not for any political reason, just too lazy. Finally, I joined up. A year later, when I was home on leave, they called and asked why I hadn't signed up. I told them I was already in.

I thought/guess that ended it.

I think.

Too late now anyway, over the 42 cutoff.

I think.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

It was incentive to keep my grades above 3 point oh

what's the grading system to work that out? i can only assume 3's pretty low?