Re: How many of you were drafted?

Posted by Boley on November 11, 2009 at 23:34:02 from (71.207.188.29):

In Reply to: How many of you were drafted? posted by DH in Carolina on November 10, 2009 at 17:38:19:

I finished high school in May of '67 and went to every major employer in the area filling out job applications.These applications had a blank in the upper r/h corner for draft status.1-A for me,a kindly old personnel man at the Union Carbide plant pointed to it and told me to come back to see him when I got back home.A woman my Mother knew served on the draft board and told us I'd likely get the call in October.Along about this time a friend came home on leave from the 82nd Airborne and I admired his jump wings and spit shined Corcoran Jump Boots.And I'd been seeing job offers in the newspaper for qualified airplane mechanics in Atlanta paying $7.50 per hour.I cut a trail to the recruiters,Navy was full up,Air Force was full up.The Army guy talked sweet,he guaranteed me a mos in aviation,and I signed a paper volunteering for the airborne.I was going to get trained to repair aircraft and get to jump out of airplanes and wear those wings and boots.As it turned out I did get an aviation mos,not mechanic but door gunner.My entire training class received orders for Viet Nam except me.I was told to report to the orderly room.The executive officer waved that paper I'd signed around while hollering that only fools and birdshit fall out of the sky and this piece of paper was causing the company to come up short and that I should sign it again to null the agreement.I didn't and went to Fort Benning instead for Parachute Infantry training,following that to the 101st Airborne recently sent to the RVN.Everything worked out perfectly,after 9 weeks in the infantry a notice was posted asking for helicopter door gunner volunteers,I think I was selected because of my previous training.Out of the Army I got the first job I applied for.Brakeman on the Southern Railroad,only because of listing the 101st Airborne on my short resume,the interviewer told me so.I was chosen over 60 other applicants because his boss was a WWII veteran of the 82nd Airborne,he glanced over the applications and told him that I was the one he was looking for.How's that for veterans preference? Better than the points they add to civil service test scores!

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