How does being drafted for war work?

If Congress and the president authorize a draft: The Selective Service System will start calling registered men ages 18-25 for duty. The men will be called in a sequence determined by random lottery number and year of birth. The men will be examined for mental, physical, and moral fitness for military service.

Do you get paid if you’re drafted for war?

A military draft forces people to do something they would not necessarily choose—serve in the military. If, for example, pay would have to be $15,000 per year to attract sufficient volunteers, but these volunteers are instead drafted at $7,000 per year, the draftees pay a tax of $8,000 per year each.

How can you avoid the draft?

Here are 11 ways people beat the draft in the 1970s.

1. Be a Conscientious Objector.
2. Make up a health condition.
3. Have children who need you.
4. Be a homosexual.
5. Run away to Canada.
6. Go to college.
7. Have a high lottery number.
8. Hold an “essential” civilian job.

Do you feel the war was a good thing?

While I felt the war probably was a good thing (to stem the march of worldwide Communism), I knew that I had options to get out of taking part in the escalating fighting halfway across the world.

How did you avoid the draft in 1966?

So in the fall of 1966 I made two halfhearted attempts to avoid the uncertainties of the draft: applying to join the Peace Corps and Air Force Officers Candidate School. After being rejected by both, I submitted to conscription, feeling like a leaf in the wind amid the political hurricane engulfing me and my generation.

How many men were drafted in the US in 1967?

After being rejected by both, I submitted to conscription, feeling like a leaf in the wind amid the political hurricane engulfing me and my generation. And so I became one of the more than 228,000 men drafted in 1967. Before the draft ended in 1973, a total of some 1.8 million of us had been conscripted.