Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Would being a cop in the late 60s help you dodge the draft?

I was just wonderin

my # was 269...........was good..........

My draft number was 6. Draft board said they would get me 2 weeks after I graduated college so I joined ARNG along with my brothers. My brother in law also joined the same unit before the draft numbers were announced. His turned out to be 366 ( leap year that year). He was one sick so and so after that announcement. I do know they gave out teaching deferments but I don’t know about cops.

My draft number was 354

How high did they draft?

I was wondering how high the numbers went too.

Depends on the year

I was #33 in 1969

Don't know about a police uniform, but I wore an ROTC uniform from '65 to '69 and it kept me out of the draft, LOL!

I did have to take the pre-induction physical THREE times, though. They kept trying to draft me, even though I was already enrolled in ROTC. No amount of arguing or official correspondence from my unit commander kept me from taking that damn physical. They always said, just take it and we'll work out the issue later.

Sweet....
Repeat across America during that time frame.
Little hometown units and the word per friends and family.
Even better to join during high school and do split op.
Even better to complete the full MSO of 8yrs as a drilling guardsmen than do 4yrs drilling then 4 yrs inactive gaurd.
Totally untouchable once that 8 yr MSO is completed.

Thank you for your service.




Hey Wabigoon you didn't even go to college right????
Just stayed on the Farm all safe and sound.
Thank you for your service also.....

Of course it would.
Especially if friends or family got ya in like Flynn.
Critical job exemption stuff.
One of about a dozen get out of the draft ways if one just does some simple Google Fu....

I dunno, but at least one guy back then got drafted right out of the Peace Corps.

I didn't care what the number was; I got drafted and that was that! I didn't much like it at the time but I have come to believe everyone should have to serve the country in some capacity. We should earn or re-affirm our rights as citizens. There should be no exemptions. Many of the people who govern us today, have never served. GD

I googled that question. It said 215 was highest number called for physical 1970 to 1976

Many of the people serving todays also shouldn't. They're a drag on the service and they volunteered to be there. Can't imagine it getting better when forced into being there.

IIRC, 125 was drafted, from there up to 250 was "could be" and above that was "would not be drafted". Of course, that was in Nov/Dec '69 so my memory may be a little off.

In the three years in which you might be sent to Vietnam, 1970, '71 and '72, they ran right up to #90 in January. And that was about it. They did go up to #120 in 1970. Higher numbers had to take the physical, but were not drafted.

My brother got drafted in early 1972 and they were bringing the troops out of Vietnam, he was sent to Germany.

My dad got drafted in 1959 fresh outta high school.
He didn't join the national guard to avoid it prior.

Trained as a Nike Missle guy or some schit like that IIRC.
Played baseball in Germany for some Division team against other teams.
Thats all he did....
What a pogue......

But at least he didn't look for a way out of the draft.
I gotta give him that...

Drew 284 in 1970.

I drew #40. I was a senior in college, fresh out of deferments. By this time, people were realizing that the war had nothing to do with freedom or patriotism. It was all a political game. I joined the Nat. Guard.