1 May 2023 9:42 pm
are you completely stupid? They drafted 49k in 1972. 125 was a number assigned to a birthdate! Mine was 308.Xavier_Onassis » 01 May 2023, 8:59 pm » wrote: ↑ When they called 125 men and 14 actually showed up, then they knew that they were not going to hit their quota. The draft "lottery" was televised, and the number needed were announced prior to that. If they had tried a rerun, it would have been bloody obvious that their method was not working and could not be made to work. So they went with "Vietnamization".
The military claimed that it was winning. if they had increased the number drafted, they would have left the cat out of the bag. They sent me a letter to report and I didn't. I had failed an Army physical in 1960 and the Army could not admit that they had thrown away the results.
you're making **** up that you don't even know a thing about.
the draft ended in 1973 and they went to volunteer army. they still had standby lottery subjects at their call if the needed them