49greg
Literotica Hack
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Sure. It was the draft lottery that came along in 1970, my brother in law sweated bullets but got a number that was like never gonna be called.
Everyone in my dorm put a dollar into a lottery for the lottery. I came late in to the TV room where the drawing was going on and saw that I got a "3" and figured I won the money. But someone else got a "1".
In practice both numbers were equally bad. He let the draft take him when we graduated, but the army was advertising that if you enlisted in the Infantry they would send you to Europe, so I signed up for that. It was for three years vs the two year draft, but it was worth it.
I still got orders for 'Nam when I finished my training, but when I told the first sergeant of the training company he sent me down to see a SP4 DeBarr who crossed out VietNam on his print-out and wrote in Europe. I was a hold over for a week and did KP in the Battalion Mess Hall every day, then I got assigned to West Berlin.