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Speaking of the draft -- where did you go to register?

Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2019 in General Discussion
Turned 18 in March of 67.

In my small town the draft registration location was the local florist shop/funeral home. Yep, really fun place to go register.

Signed up for ROTC at college because Dad and Granddad had both served and dad told me that if I had to go being an officer was the best.

Missed Vietnam by 6 months.
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    JimmyJackJimmyJack Member Posts: 5,397 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    At the local Post Office.
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    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,951 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Selective Service Office.
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    dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 31,946 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I did not have to register. Don
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    Quick&DeadQuick&Dead Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    County Court House
    The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
    We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
    Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

    I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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    wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Registration was easy. City Post Office.

    Waiting on draft # was a little edgy. The only lottery not so good to win.
    "What is truth?'
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    JIM STARKJIM STARK Member Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm so old I didn't have to register...The local "draft board" knew all of us in the neighborhood who were eligible.. They picked ..Not who, but when you went..When I got a hot tip I was up for June of '63..I dodged the draft and saw the Navy recruiter... I enlisted in 3/63... Wound up doing 8 yrs. active (sub service) and 23 in the reserves fixing subs..etc. etc... Retired an LDO LCDR.. It was a great run!!!!
    JIM...............
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    asopasop Member Posts: 8,911 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Selective Service Office in Des Plaines, Il. I believe this location drafted more kids than any other SS Office?
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    buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jim Stark,we had a guy with same name as you in MCB 133 in the early 70s.I don't guess that was you because none of the SeaBees were smart enough for sub duty.
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    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,951 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    asop wrote:
    Selective Service Office in Des Plaines, Il. I believe this location drafted more kids than any other SS Office?



    The same was said of my location, but the town was not that big, so likely a myth. Yours may have been bigger.
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    Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,603 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    dcon12 wrote:
    I did not have to register. Don

    Don was classifed 1X...In case of war they were to hold him hostage. :lol:
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    mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,297 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't remember where I registered the draft was over by the time I was of age, I did volunteer for 6 years from Dec 76 Dec 82 in the Navy and with hind sight being 20/20 it would be easy to say I probably should have made a career of it, but you never know maybe I would have fallen overboard and drowned :) .
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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    select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,453 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Selective service office
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    ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,169 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Selective Service Office in Albany, New York.. April 1968. Two months later I enlisted in the Air Force. They let us burn our draft cards in Basic Training. :D
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    35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Post Office.
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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    WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    Post Office.
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    yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 21,059 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    By mail. They tracked me down.
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    discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,418 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    in the basenent of the Post office were the offices of Social Security and Selective Service[small town America]
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    longspur riderlongspur rider Member Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    County courthouse here also.
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    rufesnowrufesnow Member Posts: 241 ✭
    edited November -1
    Had to travel, to the actual Draft Board, in Red Bank NJ. You had to go there, to sign up and get your Draft card. I don't know why? But they had it set up, as a separate entity. Maybe because it was in the 50's, and they were still doing it, like they did it during W W II?
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    bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,339 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have never registered for the draft, served in the Navy 64-67 and never registered when I got out either .
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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    allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,239 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    County courthouse DeKalb County Georgia.
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    asopasop Member Posts: 8,911 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He Dog-There were over 1,000 kids in my H.S. graduating class!
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    bearman49709bearman49709 Member Posts: 503 ✭
    edited November -1
    I never did, joined the Army and did over 7 years.
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    buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't remember much about that. at the time it wasn't called "the draft" but "selective service" because while it was mandatory to register for it, there was only a small percent chance that you might get selected and be required to join the military.

    there was 1 post office that processed such registrations and my dad drove me there shortly after my 18th birthday.
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    jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,666 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    at the local post office. my draft number was 363
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    cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,432 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Scenic Peoria IL. I wasn't drafted until I finished college. I was 23 at the time and was the oldest guy in my squad. Rufesnow, I spent many evenings when stationed at Ft. Monmouth, NJ prowling around Red Bank, Asbury Park, etc looking for chicks.
    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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    SW0320SW0320 Member Posts: 2,392 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never signed up. I saw my brother almost get drafted and most neighbors were getting drafted and sent to Vietnam so thought I would out smart them.

    I joined when I was 17. My mother signed for me because I was going in the Navy and she thought that would keep me from going to Vietnam.
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    penguin1penguin1 Member Posts: 97 ✭
    edited November -1
    Clearfield Pa. 1962
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    Mark GMark G Member Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Local post office.
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