.YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
119
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days earlier, your draft number would not have been called.
YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
240
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
135
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
WHEW
YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
326
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.
So it wouldn't matter if you were born in 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, or 1950?
YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
107
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 6 days earlier, your draft number would not have been called.
YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
73
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 1 day earlier, your draft number would not have been called.
It seems weird to me that this only covers the year 1970, when this was in place for many years. Telling me I wouldn't of been called in 1970 seems somewhat arbitrary. Maybe I'm missing something.
The draft existed before 1970, but the draft lottery was drawn December of 1969, so its first draftees were drafted in 1970. They did another for '71, and another for '72, although the '72 ones weren't used.On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. These lotteries occurred during a period of conscription from just before World War II to 1973.
The lottery numbers assigned in December 1969 were used during calendar year 1970 both to call for induction and to call for physical examination, a preliminary call covering more men.
This is weird...
I got the, "If you were born just 1 day..." shit, and then I started playing around with the numbers.
I did the day before, when I would have missed, and it says the same thing, "If you were born just 1 day..." and I'm looking through the thread, and I'm not seeing anything past like 3 days.
Has anybody gotten anything other than those responses? I'm not calling this bunk, I'm just not really understanding how this lottery works if everybody misses it or gets hit by 1-3 days? Is it because the site just locks everybody into the same birth year and if that's so, is that really a realistic representation of whether or not I would have been drafted, because it's kind of starting to just look like something that is a number engine and not something that really is supposed to make me say, "whew" but more just kind of wonder if this is what it looks like from a military accounting point of view, where it's mostly just slices of the population.
I guess that still makes me go, "Whew!"
Edit: I'm an idiot.This is weird...
I got the, "If you were born just 1 day..." shit, and then I started playing around with the numbers.
I did the day before, when I would have missed, and it says the same thing, "If you were born just 1 day..." and I'm looking through the thread, and I'm not seeing anything past like 3 days.
Has anybody gotten anything other than those responses? I'm not calling this bunk, I'm just not really understanding how this lottery works if everybody misses it or gets hit by 1-3 days? Is it because the site just locks everybody into the same birth year and if that's so, is that really a realistic representation of whether or not I would have been drafted, because it's kind of starting to just look like something that is a number engine and not something that really is supposed to make me say, "whew" but more just kind of wonder if this is what it looks like from a military accounting point of view, where it's mostly just slices of the population.
I guess that still makes me go, "Whew!"
YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
310
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 3 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.
Whew gafYOUR DRAFT NUMBER
318
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 4 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.
This is weird...
I got the, "If you were born just 1 day..." shit, and then I started playing around with the numbers.
I did the day before, when I would have missed, and it says the same thing, "If you were born just 1 day..." and I'm looking through the thread, and I'm not seeing anything past like 3 days.
Has anybody gotten anything other than those responses? I'm not calling this bunk, I'm just not really understanding how this lottery works if everybody misses it or gets hit by 1-3 days? Is it because the site just locks everybody into the same birth year and if that's so, is that really a realistic representation of whether or not I would have been drafted, because it's kind of starting to just look like something that is a number engine and not something that really is supposed to make me say, "whew" but more just kind of wonder if this is what it looks like from a military accounting point of view, where it's mostly just slices of the population.
I guess that still makes me go, "Whew!"
The days of the year (including February 29) were written on slips of paper. These pieces of paper were then placed in separate plastic capsules that were mixed in a shoebox and then dumped into a deep glass jar. Capsules were drawn from the jar one at a time.
The first number drawn was 258 (September 14), so all registrants with that birthday were assigned lottery number 1. The second number drawn corresponded to April 24, and so forth. All men of draft age (born 1944 to 1950) who shared a birth date would be called to serve at once. The first 195 birthdates drawn were later called to serve in the order they were drawn; the last of these was September 24.[1]
Also on December 2, 1971, a second lottery was held, with the 26 letters of the alphabet. Among men with the same birthdate, the order of induction was determined by the permutation ranks of the first letters of their last, first, and middle names.[2] Anyone with initials "JJJ" would have been first within the shared birthdate, followed by "JGJ", "JDJ", and "JXJ"; anyone with initials "VVV" would have been last.[3]
Fuck.YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
130
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 2 days earlier, your draft number would not have been called.
YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
9
WAS CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 3 days earlier, your draft number would not have been called.
.YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
362
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 3 days earlier, your draft number would have been called.
That sounds needlessly complicated.
Aside from the shoebox.
What brand of shoe was it?
No idea. I was just getting around to being born.