Would you have been called for the Vietnam draft, /k/? Here's the 1970 lottery numbers by day. Usually the first 100 numbers would be called. Would you try to get a deferment (university, married with kids, medical, etc)?
Fuck. 50. What was the age limit? Im 30 in the summer.
70 but T1 beetus so I guess I'd get a deferment.
>>29265304
>089
Fuck it, I'm enlisting in the chairforce.
>>29265315
35 iirc
>>29265304
>077
Shit.
Dunno if I could get out though by having tourretes. Like serious, drop-what-I'm-doing-and-freak tourretes. They might let me go on that before I yell "FUCK!" and accidentally rifles-check myself in the face during a patrol.
Or maybe they'd deploy me for the lulz.
>>29265304
>298
Is there a worse fate than being drafted to go invade rice farmers who were minding their own buisness in the name of DEMOCRACY while the government has been doing shady USSR-tier behind the scenes bullshit?
>147
Not this time, next time though...
what do the numbers refer to? I understand the date, but the answer I'm not understanding.
>>29265347
find your birthday month and day, and line it up with the 3 digit number. If its 100 or lower you got drafted.
>>29265304
I remember I had a teacher in high school who came from a military family but didn't want to fight in Vietnam and wanted an honorable way to dodge the draft. He figured out that they wouldn't induct people who had a maimed trigger finger so he cut his index finger on his dominant hand off. Always would clasp his stubby finger hand in his other hand. Pretty spooky
>>29265355
Thanks.
I would have been drafted.
>>29265304
>200+
made it.
>019
I don't know. My parents (who were boat people) told me of the bullshit that the commies pulled when they took over. Lost their business and land, and had to suffer for years before they managed to escape. I wouldn't mind killing some fucking vietnam fucking shits.
Would the US military have any use for someone who could speak Chinese and little bit of Vietnamese?
>>29265366
Wouldnt it be easier to go live in canada or europe to "study" for a few years?
>>29265304
>290
Not today.
>>29265375
>Would the US military have any use for someone who could speak Chinese and little bit of Vietnamese?
Id imagine you'd get a nice stepping stone for that, a prisoner translator or someone working in intelligence
>>29265342
This guy gets it.
>>29265376
Yes, but he was really fixated on doing something 'honorable' since several generations of his family had been military
>>29265375
>019
>Chinese and Vietnamese speaker
Yeah bud you'd be in the shit
>>29265342
>invading the south vietnamese
>minding their own business
>>29265304
>004
Fuck me. St. Valentine doesn't have my back.
>>29265304
yay saved by the pi
>>29265405
I dont know whats worse, the corrupt innept south vietnamese government or the toxic corrupt ideology of communism.
>>29265423
the war between the 2
>>29265428
And the fact we got involved
192, so apparently not.
But I tried to get into the military a few years ago, was denied because of medical reasons, so I doubt I would've back then anyway.
>>29265405
Firstly, the South Vietnamese government was genuinely repressive towards the people.
Secondly, the two Vietnams were only temporarily split as part of UN-negotiated deals at the end of WW2/rebellion time. They were always supposed to merge, but the American imperialist pig-dogs kept getting in the way.
Thirdly, America forced Uncle Ho to become gommie, because perfidity. He was first and foremost a nationalist, and always admired America, even after America stabbed him in the back. Like some kind of post-WW1 Jew.
>>29265405
>fight for freedom from foreign oppressor
>finally kick them out
>another foreign country comes along and forces you to split your country in half
>then they install a corrupt dictator who persecutes the majority of your people living in his half
>"invader"
I got news for you... They weren't the invaders.
Ho Chi Mihn was basically George Washington 2.0. And America did everything in its power to destroy him and his nation because "hurr commies!", despite being the ones who drove him into the arms of the Chinese and Soviets when they handed his country back to the French after he fought alongside them against the Japanese.
>>29265374
>not +300
>>29265459
>>29265465
>tfw we went from being the good guys to being the bad guys
:/
I AIN'T NEED NO FUCKING DRAFT TO GO TO WAR!
>>29265482
>why didn't you support me, America-san?
(。_+)＼
>>29265304
I'd get deferment in due to college and would likely go in as something to do with intel given my coursework, albeit as an officer or a spook of some type. I'd love to join up with Tony Poe or the dudes from the Phoenix project. Seemed like some fun, quite entertaining shit. MACV-SOG would also be up there on my 'Nam bucket list.
>>29265493
I hope Charlie shishkebabs your entire unit
>>29265304
>129
Hue hue hue not today uncle sam, not today.
Poor 100 though
>>29265304
>mfw number 364
>>29265505
I would welcome the attempt, ears don't grow on trees and this necklace is looking mighty fucking empty bout now.
>>29265304
>010
Well shit, better go serve my country.
Why is there no numbers for February 30th and 31st?
>>29265512
>entire immediate family is 300+
>>29265509
>poor 100
Heres to you, Mr. December 31st
>>29265519
Because that's when the fortunate sons were born.
>135
Probably fine, unless they just start counting up as the <101 club drop out of the running.
>>29265366
"honorable"
i dont remember my birthday
055. Army here I come!
Hopefully I'll enlist and go for warrant officer. I want to drive Hueys! Or Cobras!
>>29265482
>>29265437
The US only got involved because of the doctrine of containment that we had adopted. The only country in French Indochina that mattered to us was Thailand due to it's positioning on the Malacca Strait. This was also the same reason why the CIA was dicking around in Indonesia too at the time. Detente came too late, and we learned the hard way. The only real benefit to it was that the Soviets realized or were at least under the impression that the US would be willing to fight tooth and nail against the communists if the area was important enough. This fact may have been a major factor in why the Soviets started focusing their efforts on less important areas, (Angola, Chile, Nicaragua to an extent, etc) but more of them. I still say Vietnam was a poor decision, but it did have it's reasons and wasn't as useless as most did/do believe.
>>29265459
fucking frogs
if they weren't so fixated on keeping their dumb colonies they wouldn't have forced us to support them.
>>29265304
>25% of the 100 or under numbers are in November and December
>>29265561
Doctrine of containment was horseshit. Commies had already been fought off in Indonesia and Malaysia, and Thailand would never have gone commie, the Thai people basically worship their King as a living god-emperor, plus the constitution allows the military to just declare coups whenever it bloody well wants.
Also, Malacca is Malaysia/Indonesia/Singapore.
>>29265561
Also, Thailand was never part of French Indochina.
>>29265533
>be born February 30th
>draft lottery comes up
>it ain't me starts playing every time
>>29265304
149
I'm in the clear right?
>>29265355
>tfw dad was teenager during nam
>tfw by this he would have been drafted
>>29265304
>Born September 14th
>19
>Hobbies are rock climbing, trail running, and shooting
>Cuts on it ain't me
>>29265304
>40
Fuck, oh well. They wouldn't take a guy functioning on 1 kidney with a bad knee, right?
321
I'm probably safe.
>339
>not getting put on hamburger hill
>feelsgoodman
>>29265335
>get assigned as pig gunner
>get in contact and start going by the book/ROE
>randomly snap
>animal mother charge and shoot at everything that moves while yelling "PANCAKES!"
>all of my sides
>>29265304
>012
Ok
>358
Not today Uncle Sam
>>29265355
067
Yowza.... Might as well start smoking the reefer and raping Charlie's daughter...
>>29265304
>160
Yeeaaahhh boy...
>>29266023
hello there fellow Pearl Harbor friend
let's fry some communists
14 September here. 001 lel
>036
Get some
>17 July
>098
Fuk.
Me: 201
Wife: 204
Everyone in my immediate family is 200+ except my mom who is either 92 or 59, I always forget her birthday. Pretty sure it's 92 though.
>320
Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane shows here I come.
>>29265304
My uncle got drafted. Joined the coast guard and filled sandbags to keep Tillamook from flooding.
264
>043
PLEASED TO MEET YOU
HOPE YOU GUESSED MY NAME
So looking at the graph. Why would the pentagon draft 30 and 31 year olds? I know they aren't old decrepit men just why?
I get 18-21 y o and even up to 25 but 30 and 31? wtf.
>>29266621
wiki claims it was 18-25
>>29265304
>November 18th
>146
So..is the cut off at 100, or am I going to get edged in the next time Charlie gets a few dozen good shots in before dying?
>14
Damn
>>29265512
>mfw Canadian
321 damn. oh well ive been to iraq twice so fuck it.
>56
it ain't me
>going in the military, ever
lmao no thank you. I study at university and have no goal in being surrounded by dumbfuck low-wage tier idiots. I have zero interest in risking my life and health for other people because i'm not a cuc.k. Have fun getting bombed by blue-on-blue bombings or "allies" because everyone in the military was too dumb for a real education
>>29265304
>055
Shit.
>some folks are born, silver spoon in hand...
My father got ~150 and he was in college so that explains why he never went.
>>29265304
>023
>tfw not drafted
>>29265304
>277
>mfw
>>29266769
I'm retarded, I meant
>tfw drafted.
Half way through a STEM degree, is that good enough reason?
>>29266752
Do you know what drafting means?
>>29265304
>279
I'd still probably volunteer though.
>>29266752
>at university
This draft only affects Americans. Go smug somewhere else.
>>29266809
University is a good way to not get drafted.
Though given the year, that's no reason to assume he won't get shot at.
>>29265304
>087
>It Ain't Me start playing.
Vietnam here i come.
>>29266869
>fortunate son memes everywhere
>no mention of 8th of November or I Was Only 19
Feels bad man.
Low number. Smack on the cheap.
>>29265304
>002
Never was particularly lucky when it came to drawings
>>29265304
>236
ANYONE WHO RUNS, IS A VC
ANYONE WHO STAND STILL, IS A WELL DISCIPLINED VC
>>29266781
>can't read or write
It's the Corps for you then
>177
Am I in the safe?
>>29265304
120. I would probably get sent to the rice fields near the end. Most likely I would have gotten a university deferment.
>>29265304
>005
Damn...but fuck running to Canada.
Is there a way of being a pacifist without being a jehovah witness?
>>29265304
>be gook
>get drafted
>allies don't trust me because I'm a gook
>enemies target me because I'm a gook
University deferment, definitely.
>>29267037
Be a Quaker?
>>29265304
>355
NIGGA I'M SAFE
358.
Would probably have joined my grandfather and his 3 sons in the Navy. Not like my chickenshit father who planned to dodge in Canada.
AYY
>>29267054
That was my dad's plan A
>>29267075
Plan b
>>29267075
>navy
>not chickenshit
>>29266936
>117
>wooh im safe
>get drafted anyway
>"welcome back chief"
>I thought if my number was ab-
>"TIME TO FINISH THE FIGHT"
>>29265304
>360
lol more like 420 HAVE FUN IN NAM
>>29265459
Thank you for that shit tier history where you manage to completely leave out China and the cadre of Chinese trained Maoist rebels like Ho Chi Minh and General Giap.
035
>I am become death
>>29265581
The numbers corresponded to draft card registration numbers. They didn't use 4chan to draft people until Desert Storm in '78
>322
nope
but even if I was I think I could probably show some scars I have and say they're from self-harm.
Surely that would be enough to get me out ?
>>29265304
>075
Lets kill some Commies!
>>29267155
So you're saying they use it now? In this very thread?
>>29266621
>Why would the pentagon draft 30 and 31 year olds? I
Cuz back in the day 30 yearolds had 2.5 kids and a mortgagee payment
>>29265304
>267
>December 6th
>010
Mother fucker. I probably would have enlisted as some POG job by then anyways, just to decrease the likelihood of getting flyswatter stakes in my chest.
>>29267268
>POG job
>not wanting to become a snakeeater
>>29265304
>number in the 70s
Fuck the draft, might as well just go Marines while i have a choice.
>>29265355
>365
Feels good
>>29265304
>86
Possibly would've had my number called, but being a healthcare provider I doubt they would've given me a rifle.
Worst case scenario, I end up doing what I'm doing now in the military.
>>29265304
19 and I drew a 036...
>>29265304
>123
>>29265304
>01
>Suicide is painless
>It brings on many changes.....
>>29265515
>ears don't grow on trees
>corn.jpg
wut
>>29265304
nope
>>29265304
122
>>29266926
Oh shit, another April 24 bro?
>>29269397
Yep. They pluck it right off the corn tree.
>033
I'll just go AWOL, rape and kill Vietnamese women, then shoot myself I guess
>>29267144
Thankyou for leaving out how they went to the Chinese after they were sold out by their supposed friends and allies.
Americans will never approach the question seriously, but how do you think the Founding Fathers would have felt if, at the end of the Revolution, their ally France forced them to split the Southern colonies into a separate country, that was ruled by a Catholic dictator? Nevermind that it could never happen, assume it did. Do you think they'd turn down anyone's support in the subsequent war to liberate that land, including the British? No.
That's why Ho Chi Mihn sided with the commies.
>>29265304
>083
*It aint me starts playing*
>>29265304
>303
Not drafted and I am also a british caliber.
Lucked out with 108. My younger brother would've been drafted, so I would go too.
>>29265304
>255
phew. I can smoke weed, drop acid, drive a hemi charger while drunk with no seatbelts and fuck hippies all i want.
>>29265304
>318
>050
>206
>also in college
I'm good senpai.
>>29265304
How does one use this chart, exactly?
>>29265415
I'm here with you bro
>>29265304
>058
Let me win your hearts and minds or I'll burn your goddamned huts down.
>>29265304
> 017
FUCK YEAH, WARCRIMES!
>>29266926
April 24 Bros unite
>>29266933
>Marines are uneducated
I never got this meme. You need at least a HS diploma to join the Marines, can't be a GED, but the army takes those. I've actually met a few soldiers that tried to join the army but the Marine Corps either said they didn't have enough HS credits, or their GED wasn't enough. So they joined the army instead.
>>29265526
>tfw 100
shit...
191 wew
016 but symptomatic flat feet
>>29265304
>194
Is that bad?
>tfw my dad was 310
He just dropped acid and smoked pot during the 70's.
>>29265304
Damn nigger, I was 053. If I was of the proper age at the time I'd like to think I'd have enlisted rather than getting told.
Probably the only way I'd get to go to Asia. My Viet wife never wants to go back, wtf!
>>29270123
>9/11 happens
>Driving home from obtaining my GED before the buildings fall
>17 years old
>Try to join the Marines right after with my GED. The recruiter isn't interested
>Go home kinda pissed. Tell my father I want to serve because "muh freedom, dem terrorists"
>Father redpills me
>Never join
Did he do good?
>>29265304
068
am i fuked
It ain't me
>>29269788
Thanks.
>>29265304
>236
Woohoo, I'm safe.
epileptic
get fucked i'm safe
>235
Phew
>>29265304
>Would you have been called for the Vietnam draft, /k/?
>096
Nah, i'd be a draft dodger, seeing as I'd already be enlisted.
>>29270349
>not wanting your own child to learn that shit first hand, now wanting him to spill Saracen blood
no your father was a faggot
>026
shit
>try to defer?
i'm a runt manlet with breathing problems, i'd do anything i could to escape that
>>29265304
Not this time.
>>29265304
I'm /10/2 I'm I'm going to. Nam
>>29265304
>38
Whats better oper8tin music? Hendrix or the Stones?
>>29270509
The doors
I'm volunteering any ways
>>29270470
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFFOUkipI4U
made me think of this
>>29265304
193. Didn't get me this time, but next time.
Should I just go enlist in the Air Force? I got a degree.
>>29270320
Sup, cuz
>>29265304
>226
Looks like I'm volunteering for the Navy.
102, well I wanna get some charlies anyway so it does really matter huh?
>>29270756
good job saving the thumbnail
I would've already volunteered to kill commies
>>29269801
My brotha.
>>29269390
>mixing up Vietnam and Korea
>>29270435
>096
sup draftbro. save me a seat in the Huey, will ya?
>260
Yee
>>29270237
>100
bro, that's my birthday too. But I'm educated so I was at uni when i was 19
>>29271380
>not knowing that while the movie was set in Korea, it was deliberately framed to remind the viewer of the still ongoing conflict in Vietnam
You're both wrong.
>>29265304
>334
If it wasn't just this protecting me, my heart condition I was born with would..in spite of it being fixed as of last year.
I wouldn't be especially upset to get drafted though; I might even volunteer so I could actually have some control over my destiny, like, there were guys stationed in Germany.
>>29265304
>007
Fuck.
Fuck.
At least I'd get my name on a fancy ass memorial.
>>29265304
How's it go again?
>>29271948
I am a senators son?
>>29271863
>remind the viewer of the still ongoing conflict in Vietnam
Hmmm, maybe that is why he used the song?
>>29271993
The song was actually written the directors 14 year old son. He was told to write the stupidest song possible.
>>29265355
265, guess I lucked out
30 years old, already did my 4 years long ago in the AF, so I think I'm safe regardless
>>29265304
>this scene in Forrest Gump
All of my yee
>>29272032
Forgot link
https://youtu.be/J1eBS8avHrg
>>29267268
December 6th bro lets remove gook together
>>29265304
I just got a 005 guess who's going to nam guys.
>>29265304
100? FUCK THE NIGGERJEWS!
>>29265304
my mother used to watch this on TV always checking to see if we would be called.
we (my brothers and I) were to young to be drafted but my mother always checked and was relieved when we were passed over.
I guess its one of those things, you would have to be there to understand.
>>29265304
>245
Could be worse.
Nope. Number 300.
>>29265304
>043
Means I'm going in? Well, I speak Russian and some Chinese, so I doubt I'll ever have to see action.
>>29265304
missed it by six, fuck. Oh well can enlist anyways.
43. Let's waste some gooks.
>041
Fuuuuuuuug. Can I get on waterslide guard duty?
>>29265304
>065
Can someone explain what the fuck happens to my ass?
>>29266420
Same.
JUST fuck my shit up sempai
>>29275782
You gon die.
>>29269567
The song is named fortunate son you fucking lobotomite.
>>29265355
can you fly da aeroplanes if you get drafted or did you have to be a nerd??
>>29275823
Retarded newfag
>>29275823
>oblivious tripfag
why am I not surprised
Also stop changing your fucking tripcode, I'm tired of having to change my settings to filter you all the goddamn time.
>I survived
>my little brother survived
>my dad survived
>my pacifist, gun toting, child of a lawyer and great church going woman roommate with a brother who died in a car accident roommate gets drafted
War never changes
033
There's no way I'm not getting drafted, is there?
>everyone posting draftee numbers
There's only one think you can do in a situation like that. Just walk into the shrink, wherever you are. Say: "Shrink. You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant"
Walk out.
>>29265304
draft dodging thread?
>be dads friend in the 70's
>low draft number
>fugg
>too late to do shit like join the coastguard
>says fuck it, enlists so he can choose his mos
>goes to vietnam, but is a radio operator inna green zone
>be dad
>constant college deferments because he was an IRL student
>spent like 6 years slowly getting a geography degree
>ran out of deferments
>moves states to make the process take longer
>on way to FL from Georgia
>gets into car accident
>has to report after he gets better from back/neck injury and concussion
>inna hospital
>Nixon ends the draft
>got out of going to vietnam by dumb luck
>went to law school instead
313
>see you niggas stateside
>>29277531
You know if one person, just one person does it they'll think he's really sick and they won't take him.
>285
shit, guess im enlisting for some sweet nam action
>>29277595
And if two people do it, (in harmony) they'll think they're both faggots and they won't take either of 'em.
>>29275799
COOL!
Can I at least get an original M-16?
>>29275823
No, you fucking idiot, it ain't me is the correct name for the song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Beda3kFNjo
>010
>>29265304
Roooolllllll
>>29265304
I would have enlisted voluntarily.
>>29265471
I got 350+
I feel pretty safe.
December 17th. Birthday of Simo Hayha, powered flight and the 2nd Amendment, flighty I'm safe from the draft. Nah, my ass would do just like I did once I was old enough to fight in Iraq & Afghanistan and enlist in a combat arms MOS. I enjoyed being at war. Getting to go to war with hookers, beer and better weed than what Afghanistan had would be fucking great. Plus growing out my hair and trolling hippy sluts just sounds like fun. Deferment? Nah, fuck that.
>442
Not today uncle sam, not today
I'm asthmatic and have ridiculously bad eyesight. Like 2/-4, so I'd probably tell them I'd be a really shitty grunt, a terrible pilot, and my low blood pressure makes me a bad candidate for anything that has me sitting still for long periods of time since if I stand up I can pass out immediately.
I mean, I sit here all day doing jack shit so I don't know if that last one is entirely true but still. Oh yeah also my hip was completely fucked as a kid and I had to have a chiropractor twist my pelvis so my leg wouldn't have a 20 degree incline to it and I have bad knees so I can't run for long periods of time without extreme pain and inflammation.
I've even got incredibly shaky hands.
>what the fuck isn't wrong with me
>>29265304
>360
Shit, I kinda wanted to go.
>006
Guess I really WOULD be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill.
>>29265304
>040
AND ITS ONE TWO THREE
WHAT'RE WE FIGHTIN FOR
DON'T ASK ME I DON'T GIVE A DAMN
NEXT STOP IS VIETNAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Y0ekr-3So
I'm safe niggerssss
>tfw injury you can fall back on too
>>29275823
>*it aint me starts playing*
>>29265304
235, thank you Nixon-San
>>29286725
God damn I hope you don't ever breed.
>>29265304
291, Thank God.
>>29275823
kill yourself you sad old cunt
>>29265304
>229
[WORRIED LAUGHTER]
>>29265304
044, I ain't no fortunate son no
>>29265304
>364
If only i were this lucky irl
222 trips get
>>29270608
>Looks like I'm volunteering for the Navy.
that's exactly what my dad did. Worse 4 years of his life. It was all about pandering to Dindus and Flips back then, so they doubled down on those 'priviliged' enlisted. At least he got to see some nice spots in the Med and Carribbean.
>>29265304
I'm fucked.
Better start shitting my pants feigning mental illness like Ted Nugent so I don't get drafted.
>>29265304
>311
Feels Bill Clinton.
>>29265304
>MFW 178
>flat feet
>bad eye sight
>work in a vital war industry
>support a disabled father
>attend college part time
>asthmatic
>overweight
&
>hetroflexable
No god damn way in hell is any draft board taking my ass.
001 looks like fate would've anal fucked me
>>29265304
181, they got me in February.
But wait I already volunteered did 13 years and got a medical discharge. Can't draft me know!
>>29265355
>268
Okay, I'm good then.
>>29265304
304. Does that mean I'm untouchable?
>144
Not only am I not going to nam but I get dubs as well
>014
>214
Not this time 'nam
>126
Saved
>>29265329
89 also!
Fuck it, remove chink
>>29290399
>tfw 299
my nigga
also >checked
>>29265304
>September 3rd
Yep, I'm drafted.
>would you try to get a deferment
Yep, I'm a business owner with nobody who could take over. Going to war would mean I'd have to close my business, and I wouldn't be able to recover after I got back because I'd have lost my entire customer base.
Doesn't mean I'd get a deferment, but I'd try. In one more year, I'll be exempt from selective service so I'm good unless a legit world war breaks out.
>>29265304
>240
i'll be sitting at home watching the unlucky ones get rekt
>>29265304
>054
Yep, I would have been called. Have flat feet, however.
However, I'm in university, so that'd probably be my deferment until I graduate.
At which point with my degree I would be more useful designing bombs rather than dropping them.
>>29265323
>you just posted your DOB on 4chan
>>29265315
+1.
>>29265375
Hi there fellow 019 bro!
>102
I'm volunteering.
>>29265304
>260
Doesn't matter, I'm a fully verified gimp. Couldn't enlist if I wanted to.
>>29265304
I'm 24 now. Number 206 though.
>>29291639
>you just posted your DOB on 4chan
As long as you're over 18, what does it matter?
>>29291773
Didn't you know anon, mad 1337 hax0rs will pwn u nubs posting personal data...
even though there are hundreds of thousands of people with your exact birth date and it's not identifiable in any way without additional resources.
>>29265304
>145
Hot diggity damn, have fun dying in a mud hole faggots
