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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (221224)	2/28/2005 10:34:19 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574342

"10% of draft age men served in the military during Vietnam."< Interesting. I thought the percentage of troops in country who saw combat was lower... All true. None of it relevant. Eh? What that says is that if you were 18-35, you only 1 chance in 10 of being drafted. Now true, the big concern over being drafted was being sent to Vietnam and to combat, THe chance or that was 1 in 4. Still not horrible. Much better than say, being a German of military age in WW2. but the discussion revolved around being drafted in general. In general, if you didn't have a deferment, you faced a very high probability of being drafted. BUT of the population of military age in general, your chance of being drafted was only 1 in 10 and of being drafted and seeing combat was 2.5%.