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Originally Posted by P-3 Guy
That's interesting how according to your account the second Vietnam draft lottery (July 1, 1969) actually took place before the first one (December 1, 1969).
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At the time I was day-dreaming to enlist in the Marines so's I could be a point man on a Marine squad that moved through the muddy jungle watching for a Charlie sniper, hidden up a tree, who waited till close before firing ..... pop-pop-pop .... the sound of an AK-47 ...... I wanted to be the point man who pushed an M-16 up over the ground, through the jungle growth, waiting to meet Charlie.
My Dad was a Lieutenant Commander at the time, a Navy dentist, 1942-1975, who told me about 10,000-times to stay the hell out of the military with this Vietnam War going on, unless I wanted to come back home inside a box.
He would say, "do you like being alive, do you want to get shot, do you want to come back home in a black metal box, dead and disfigured, and then get buried. So, just stay the hell out of the military because as a private, that's what can happen."
Lucking out with a draft lottery-303 put a fast rest to my thoughts on enlisting!
My Dad fought cavities for the U.S. Navy, 42-46 and Navy Reserve, 46-75, mostly doing dental inspections but every once in a blue moon, he would be especially nervous because he was working on an Admiral's mouth, the next duty day.