Vietnam Era Selective Service

[GPCharles]

Best draft/army story I ever heard.

Guy graduates from college in 1969, loses his student deferment and gets classified 1A. Gets drafted into the army. They worked on him non-stop to go to OCS but he declined. Two and out was enough for him. Goes to basic and gets shipped out to Vietnam. More training. The afternoon before his unit is to deploy into the bush he gets called into the Division's HQ to talk to the commanding general. A general and two colonels in the room and they are reviewing his personnel file. General says "I see you edited your college yearbook." Draftee says "Yes sir, for two years." General says "Great, we need an editor for our division newspaper and yearbook [[or whatever it was called). You are being reassigned immediately to HQ to work on the newspaper and edit and publish our yearbook."
Becomes an REMF and about 1 year later, two trips to Thailand and one trip to Japan to resolve photo and printing issues, the yearbook is complete and he's out and headed back to the USA.