Reply #10: if you are drafted, and you have a medical/psychological/conscientious [View All]

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objector issue or any other number of issues that MIGHT allow you to get out of the DRAFT (which is mandatory military service...to shoot and kill in defense of the USA)....then, you go down to your local DRAFT Board, called 'Selective Service Board' (in your neighborhood) and plead your case (sort of like a court)...and the DRAFT Board will then determine YOUR fate...the people on the Board will decide whether you get a deferrment (which is whether you can stay at home, rather than shoot and kill)...so the DRAFT Boards are very important to 19 year olds...

for example, suppose you get drafted, then go down and plead with the draft board that you cannot go because you are in college...the Board will look at your evidence and could STILL decide to send you to Iraqnam, even if you are in college because they might not like your study courses or the college itself (although they MIGHT let you stay in college if you know one of the DRAFT Board members personally, and they like you and believe you to be sincere)....so DRAFT Boards are VERY VERY important to every 19 year old in America right now...