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http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:fp42qUdNsRsJ:www.facesfromthewall.com/ID1970jun.html+vietnam+marines+drafted&hl=en

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:GblfhxXAGesJ:www.facesfromthewall.com/ID1968nov.html+vietnam+marines+drafted&hl=en

http://www.thirdmarines.net/articles/survivor.asp



Had it happen to me, too, but it didn't take. :)

Personally, I think I favor it, and believe drafting raises the average test scores of the Corps. Or at least it did back in the day. Of course, back then, Marines (and Army) were occasionally 'recruited' out of jail cells, or standing before judges for strong-arm robbery, etc.

Drafting by the Army and Marines, the branches with infantry assignments, ran up the recruitment rates for Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, reserves and NG, so that drafting was extremely rare or nonexistent for them, with possible 'skills' draft occasions as the only exceptions, during Nam. During WWII, FDR ended all voluntary enlistments in 1942, so all inductees for all branches after then were drafted.