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Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era: four student (educational) deferments while in college and a later medical deferment for bone spurs that made him 4‑F, which tog...
Bill Clinton did not serve in Vietnam and took steps in 1968–69 to avoid induction that critics called "draft dodging," but reporters and government reviews since the 1990s have concluded he did not c...
The Vietnam-era draft lottery assigned a random sequence number to each day of the year and then mapped men’s birthdates onto those numbers so that lower numbers meant earlier call to service; the fir...
The basic, historically cited qualifications for entry-level ICE agent roles include U.S. citizenship, a valid driver's license, eligibility to carry a firearm, and an age cap tied to entry before the...
Bill Clinton did not serve in the U.S. military; during the Vietnam era he used legally available educational deferments, drew a high lottery number that made induction unlikely, was reclassified and ...
Minimum eligibility for most entry‑level ICE law‑enforcement roles, as described in ICE and reporting on hiring drives, consistently includes U.S. citizenship, a valid driver’s license, eligibility to...
The Selective Service held a birth-date lottery on December 1, 1969, drawing 366 capsules — one for each calendar date including February 29 — to assign an “order of call” number to every man born 194...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era: four student deferments and one medical deferment for bone spurs, and he was assigned a high lottery number that made him unlike...
The Vietnam-era draft deferments were widespread and affected many Americans including prominent politicians; rather than frontline induction. Contemporary reporting and retrospective fact checks show...
The 1969 draft lottery assigned each calendar birth date (including Feb. 29) a lottery number by drawing 366 capsules from a jar on December 1, 1969; the order drawn became the order of induction for ...
The major legal end to broad undergraduate student deferments came in 1971 when Congress (via HR 6531) and President Nixon moved to eliminate new undergraduate (II‑S) deferments and reclassify incomin...
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden avoided serving in Vietnam through a combination of student and medical draft classifications: Trump received four student deferments and a medical deferment (bone spur...
The 1969 draft lottery assigned disproportionately low (i.e., early-call) numbers to birthdates late in the calendar year — especially November and December birthdays — producing a visible clustering ...
Donald Trump’s 1968 medical deferment for “bone spurs” remains contested: contemporaneous reporting and later accounts show a legitimate-seeming diagnosis on official Selective Service records, but la...
Donald Trump’s draft lottery number in the December 1, 1969 drawing was 356, a high number on a 1–365 scale (reported by CBS News, PolitiFact and others) . Multiple news outlets — including The New Yo...
The 1969 draft lottery replaced the prior age-based system with a randomized drawing of birthdays to determine the order of induction for men born 1944–1950, a change meant to make conscription fairer...
The 1969 Vietnam draft lottery assigned every calendar birthdate (366 days) a lottery number from 1–366 by drawing blue plastic capsules from a large glass container on December 1, 1969; lower numbers...
The Selective Service held the first Vietnam-era draft lottery on December 1, 1969, to assign a random “order of call” for men born January 1, 1944–December 31, 1950 by drawing 366 birth-date capsules...
The Selective Service operated a multi-tier classification system during the Vietnam War that sorted registrants into categories ranging from "available for military service" to legally exempt or defe...
In 1968, the Selective Service did accept as a condition that could lead to medical deferment or classification changes, but the documentary record provided here does not produce a single, detailed ch...