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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (28214)	2/6/2004 5:09:38 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 793900

Everybody had the opportunity to join the Guard rather than be drafted. The down side of enlisting the the Guard is that you served longer than if you were drafted. I think six years, don't remember exactly. But if you were drafted, only two. Everybody gamed the system, unless they were too ignorant to know that you could game the system, or too naive or idealistic. Student deferrals, enlisting in the Guard, ROTC, pulling strings to get assigned a job stateside or in Europe or intelligence or as a medic. The war was immensely unpopular. The government of Vietnam was notoriously corrupt, and the Vietnamese people's "hearts and minds" were not in it. I knew one person who was planning on enlisting, and even he did Navy ROTC so he wouldn't be a "grunt." I knew personally lots and lots of men who got the "greetings" letter, but none who served. Even the military doctors who did the examinations were not into it - they rejected people as 4-F for almost nothing. If you didn't get the 4-F you could appeal to a private doctor who almost always would reject you, if that's what you wanted - the ones who would reject you were well known and did a very good business.

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