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The mechanics of the draft system during the Vietnam era, including the use of deferments, exemptions, and classifications.
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...
College and occupational deferments during the Vietnam era materially reshaped who went to war by providing legal, administrable routes out of the draft that were far more accessible to men with resou...
The December 1, 1969 draft lottery assigned sequence numbers to men born between 1944 and 1950 to determine induction order for 1970, a change meant to reduce perceived bias in the pre‑lottery system ...
The 1969 draft lottery reshaped who served in Vietnam more than how many served: it converted uncertain, uneven local draft practices into a national ordering that altered incentives to volunteer, cha...