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[ahoyhoy]

My boyfriend was dragged but I wasn't.

Canada here we come.

 

[The Albatross]

Would've been called in 1970 according to this site, and apparently if born 2 days earlier it would not have been called.

W/e

Feel like usa today is cashing in on that Ken Burns relationship

 

[Widdle Puppy]

What happened if you didn't report for your draft?

 

[shaowebb]

Got drafted. Missed safety by 9 days.

 

[robochimp]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
358
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 1 day earlier, your draft number would have been called.

Whew.

 

[Thatonemoor]

Number 132

Got drafted but if my birthday was 1 day earlier I wouldn't have been drafted.

 

[RumbleHumble]

55 AKA Dead.

 

[Heysoos]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
303
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 1 day earlier, your draft number would have been called.


Close.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

What happened if you didn't report for your draft?

If they caught you, jail time if they pressed the issue.


YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
273
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.


Although, 1970 SoapBox Killer might have enlisted anyway

 

[casnix]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
200
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.

Whew..

Luckily my wife and daughter wouldn't have been drafted either if they would have drafted women.

 

[Assanova]

What's with all of the one day earlier or later in 1970? What is the methodology for choosing which numbers were called and when?

 

[PdotMichael]

Motst people in military don't see the frontline anyway.

Sadly I was once drafted as tank driver so my expected life time in a Cold War conflict would have been a few minutes.

 

[Earthbound64]

Good to know I wouldn't die.

Considering you would be around 67 years old now, you probably don't have too much longer anyway. Enjoy it while you can.

 

[Kaizer]

Your Draft Number
213
Was Not Called In 1970.
If Your Birthday Was Just 1 Day Earlier, Your Draft Number Would Have Been Called.

YEAHHHHHHH BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

 

[MUnited83]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER

WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 1 day earlier, your draft number would not have been called.

ಠ_ಠ

 

[robochimp]

What's with all of the one day earlier or later in 1970? What is the methodology for choosing which numbers were called and when?

Each month and date combo for 1950 birthdays was assigned a random number. They then randomly picked from those numbers.

If your birthday was April 4th and you missed by a day later it means April 5th was picked.

 

[charpunk]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
3
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 11 days earlier, your draft number would not have been called.

Welp.

 

[geomon]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
79
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days earlier, your draft number would not have been called.

Fuck.

 

[quesalupa]

I finally won the lottery.

 

[Dan]

Interesting. I would have been drafted.

 

[UberLevi]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
335
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.

Spoiler

draft

Dodging hypothetical bullets.

 

[Valkerionseven]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER 336
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970
If your birthday was 1 day earlier your draft number would have been called.

 

[The Albatross]

What happened if you didn't report for your draft?

You were a draft dodger which was/is against the law (was because there's no draft anymore)

It carried up to a 5 year prison sentence though often wasn't that much. There were also numerous ways to avoid the draft legally, like on religious grounds, being a consientious objector to the war, or, interestingly, if you were a homosexual.

 

[Thelonelykoopa]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
200
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.

Phew

 

[Gnome Scat]

My draft number was 10 and was called... Shit.

 

[frontovik]

Your draft number
226
was not called in 1970.

If your birthday was just 5 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.

 

[GK86]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
78
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 8 days earlier, your draft number would not have been called.

Mom and Dad would have fucked me over.

 

[Snaku]

Missed the draft by a day. Whew.

 

[Ray Down]

310 saved by three days so me and my twin would be safe.

Though our older brother would have been drafted.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

My boyfriend was dragged but I wasn't.

Canada here we come.

Thats how my exes family ended up here.

 

[Silver_DNA]

32. Looks like I'm going to war, boys. If I was born a day later I would have been drafted.

 

[PInk Tape]

Your draft number

77

was called in 1970

If your birthday was just a day earlier, your draft number wouldn't have been called

Fuck that shit, I'd fucking run cuz there's no way I'd survive.

 

[KojiKnight]

Drafted by a single day. Luckily I'm too old if they reinstate the draft now anyways.

 

[katsubento]

Missed getting drafted by one day.

 

[Agent_ShortBus]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
132
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 1 day earlier, your draft number would not have been called.

I never win anything. Honestly would probably end up going instead of trying to dodge the draft or leave the country.

 

[Rapscallion]

Missed it by two days.

Now I'm the perfect storm of things they don't want in the military: I'm incredibly flat footed, crohns inflicted, 10 years past 18, and I hold multiple sociology degrees that make me critical and disgusted by the military institution.

 

[Sunster]

Draft number 58, I would have been called to serve in that bullshit war.

 

[Zeus Molecules]

I would of been drafted......


That shit is scary just thinkIn about

 

[kaskade]

Damn, drafted with only a day too late to not be drafted.

It’s pretty intense when you see it like that.

 

[TheZink]

Drafted. 5 days earlier would have been safe.

 

[tekumseh]

Mine was #80. Looks like I'd have been Canada bound...

 

[Earthbound64]

Looks like I'd have been Canada bound...

tekumseh
Member

 

[Monocle]

🙃

Same. Noooo thanks.

 

[Strike]

I would've been in.

 

[Evo Shandor]

Safe by 2 days.

 

[wisdom0wl]

Damn, this was a lottery I won, by 1 day.

WHEW

 

[killer rin]

Welp, my entire family would have been called. There goes my bloodline

 

[Media]

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
108
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days later, your draft number would not have been called.

Jokes on them, I don't have a penis.

 

[Alcotholic]

My Draft number was 10.
I guess that's cool. I probably would have died in the war.

 

[CSX]

For me :

YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
266
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.