I was in college (Washington State U) in 1969, and got a copy of the letter the college sent my draft board saying I wasn't making "normal progress" toward a degree. When I started college in '66, you got a 2S (student) deferrment for 4 years. Long about '69, military was getting hard up for bodies, so they started requiring the colleges to look at transcripts of all juniors, and notify draft board if he wasn't going to be able to get a degree in the 4 year period (due to change of majors, etc.). If your draft board got "the letter", your deferrment was yanked and you were drafted in pretty short order. I think Wazu was one of the few schools that sent a copy of the letter to the student, so lots of guys didn't even know about it.
I came "thaaaat close" to signing up for 2 year ROTC program to keep my deferrment, but through an incredible set of coincidences, ended up joining the National Guard. The had the lottery while I was in Infantry training, and my number was 40- so would have been taken anyhow.
Every regular army guy in my Infantry training outfit went to Nam when training was completed in November '69, and they didn't even get to go home for a week first- just put 'em on busses and took them from Fort Lewis to adjoining McCord AFB, and shipped them out. They couldn't let them go home, or many would have gone AWOL and never returned.
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