Jul 10, 2011, 3:24 PM
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December 1, 1969 - the number was ---------27 Two years later was in Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam (not having a very good time, though - mix up at the tourist bureau probably).
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Jul 10, 2011, 6:26 PM
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Number 46 from 1971. I was screwed. Newborn son in July 72, draft notice received one month later, reported for induction one month after that. That's quite an abrupt lifestyle change...
Jul 11, 2011, 3:34 AM
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sure do..
i was in college... it was early 1972...
"student deferments" had been eliminated.... i lived on a floor in a dorm, which had mostly upperclassmen,,, but there were 5 or 6 freshmen, all of whom would be affected by the lottery draw......
one by one birthdays and corresponding lottery #'s came up... one guy got something in the low 300's most of the others were in the high 200's...THEY all went to the Rathskeller to celebrate
Me????? I waited it out.... well MY birthday came up # 16... Go Figure !!!!
i was healthy, in decent shape, Quite likely to PASS a pre-induction physical,,, and NERVOUS....
Really preferred to STAY in school..... anyway I received a notice to report for that physical in NYC, sometime in sept...
wrote back to say.. "i'm in college, 375 miles AWAY... can't make it." they responded, Ok sit tight.. we'll re-schedule you to someplace in Buffalo.... Then in Dec of '72 got the new notice, borrowed a roommates van,, drove into rochester. where they put us on a bus to Buffalo.. and bascially spent the rest of the day "Qualifying" for induction.... Was classified 1A. went back to school.. to wait for the draft notice... Within ONE month,,,, Nixon "ended" the draft.... and i was never called... I had started jumping in sept of '72 and so was happy to finish college and to continue jumping.... AS A CIVILIAN !!! often wondered about what things would have been like.. IF i HAD been drafted......
Jul 11, 2011, 9:18 AM
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Jan 1970 #36. March 1970, broke my arm on the Parafoil, got a steel plate and a medical deferrment. 3 months later, I was jumping again, and they never called me up
Jul 11, 2011, 9:34 AM
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Hi Krip,
I was in & out long before they came up with that 'game.'
One of the guys I went to college with, who was in ROTC & owed Uncle Sammy 5 yrs of active duty, got #366.
JerryBaumchen
Like you Jerry, in 1964 out 1968.
Sparky
Hello Gentlemen
GOOD MORNING DZ.COM ( robin williams name that movie)
Jerry and Sparky and the rest of you sweet young things.
I'm still doing my independent research on The internet and there are lots of incorrect info. I know it's the internet but I'm still .
There were lots of ways to dodge the draft without bugging out. All of my peers in the air force were draft dodgers. I'm a draft dodger and want credit for it One guy was only 17yo barely legal to drink when Johnny came marching home from the war. He was a very young confused draft dodger, but even he could find Air force.
I can not tell a lie I only did 3 yr's and 9 month's 66-70. No I didn't bug out, desert, make excuses. Recieve the scarlet double letter DD.
I did get a DD214 good as gold
There were rules and some people still try and tell me "the rules are the rules" but a GI knows the real deal knew real deal.
Think a polish 2S deferment on the back side
I'm so old and confused Whine whine whine, Stop picking on me, make them stop picking on me whine whine whine.
Please no politic's, religion or spelling, grammer nazi's. Respect our young brothers that weren't as lucky as us. I like getting older
I still remember the pics of some of the golden knights on the inside back cover in their PR pic of the parachutist that got sent back to their units and never came home
R.I.P.
FWIW my bosses first name starts with a K + rip = Krip TMI
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Jul 11, 2011, 3:50 PM
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Hi Krip,
Like Sparky & you, I did my time: 3 yrs 10 mos 24 days in the good old USAF; who could forget? BTW Enlisted in '59 & out in '63.
I was very fortunate in that I was in & out before VN got cooking. Had it been later, I would have gone if called; that's the type of person that I am.
But I'm very glad that it was peacetime for me.
JerryBaumchen
PS) I, like a lot of folks, lost a good friend over there; but that is war and it is never nice. I have the utmost respect for those who had to face it.
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Jul 11, 2011, 5:04 PM
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Like Sparky & you, I did my time: 3 yrs 10 mos 24 days in the good old USAF; who could forget?
Jerry,
I was not in the USAF, I was a Navy Corpsman. In 1967/68 I was attached to Second Battalion Third Marines in South Viet Nam, Republic of. I got to tour all the hot spots, Hue, A Shau Valley and Khe Sanh. A good time was had by all.
Jul 14, 2011, 9:16 AM
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#315 in the 1st lottery + student deferment. Can't remember the classification (maybe 2-S?). Then from ~1970 till the end of the draft I was 1-A but was never called.
Jul 17, 2011, 5:04 AM
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I remember this like it was yesterday. My number was 348. My best friend's number was 1. Fortunately for him, an injury from his high school football days saved his bacon.
Jul 17, 2011, 5:40 AM
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Jerry,
I was not in the USAF, I was a Navy Corpsman. In 1967/68 I was attached to Second Battalion Third Marines in South Viet Nam, Republic of. I got to tour all the hot spots, Hue, A Shau Valley and Khe Sanh. A good time was had by all.
Sparky
GOD BLESS YOU, SPARKY!
Earl USMC 77-81 USAF 83-99 (RET)
I was in the first year that didn't get lottery numbers. I was class 1H, which meant "holding". However, I DO remember my draft card numbers, even though the Marine Drill Instructors took them away from me and I never saw them again -- 41 35 54 0390
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Sep 26, 2011, 5:25 AM
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GOOD MORNING DZ. COM!!!!!!!
"Robin Williams"
I actually found some news video's of the free lottery number system.
The draft board or who it was sure dressed funny back then. Cheap suits ties and women wearing dress's and funny hairdooo's.
I'm not sure if the current, paid lottery system $$$ would accept the low stds set for the free system
I was expecting numbered ping pong balls, a air machine mixing the balls up in a random manner etc etc. That wasn't the way it was done "almost back in the day".
To be continued at a later date.
R.
FWIW this is not a bump, or a DB cooper groupie travel log from a recent trip to forida.
I'm not complaining in any way. I sent the Green Hat a PM and told him what was going on and they allow it to continue.
So whats good for the golden goose
What time is it? Damn it's time to clock out and go home Hate posting on my own time
Oct 16, 2011, 5:04 PM
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Lottery????? I didn't even get a ticket. I was across the pond when that contest started, but they gave me a number there. The Big Red One. (2d Bn (Mech) 2d Inf) Dau Tieng and the Michelin.
Oct 16, 2011, 5:16 PM
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Since we may have vets of a certain age and era reading this thread, listen up!!!!
The US VA has attributed ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE to Agent Orange.
If you have heart problems get checked out, and if it shows disease FILE a CLAIM thru tour County Veteran Service Officer, The DAV, VFW American Legion etc.
The only burden of proof you have is that 1.) You served in Viet nam and 2.) You have ischemic Heart disease. (To my knowledge, approx 87% of all heart disease is Ischemic in nature.)
Oct 17, 2011, 8:09 PM
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11/11/11 is veterans day this year.
And a number of companies are again doing freebies for vets; one being Applebee's which will be doing a free meal.
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Hi Mr Baumchen
Thanks for the reminder, I also carry a copy of my DD 214 in my wallet in case i stop by home depot or lowes, for their 10% dicount. Available 365 days/yr based on my personnel experience. If you ask
FWIW there are some people I address as Mr, because they have earned my respect, your one of them.
But in the big picture showing my respect really doesn't mean squat except to Number one. Me
FWIW I stumbled on the 11/11/11 date by accident due to a Dr's appt. Enjoy the triple 11's on vets day
. It was to late to get started. 
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I'm old
but you can see my search criteria. so if your interested do your own search. 
I waited it out.... 
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