2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Attacking Bernie for seeking Conscientious Objector status may be the most laughable smear yet [View all]DallasNE
(7,418 posts)Had Bernie been drafted he would have been taken in early 1964. He could well have been sent to South Korea but with 2 years of service he would have needed to go to Vietnam in the spring of 1965 with a pending discharge 10 months later. While Vietnam was in the early stages of the build-up he likely would not have had his other duty end early just to send him to Vietnam. I had 2 friends wait for the draft and they both went at 22 1/2 and my timeline is based on this age. We're all 1 year older than Sanders so dates have been adjusted accordingly. After military school one friend went to Korea and the other to Fort Lewis, staying stateside all 2 years.
Sanders has a September birthday so he could have had classmates some 10-11 months younger than him that could have ended up in Vietnam. That is how tight the timeline is.