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The military draft during the Vietnam War.
did not serve in the War: he received multiple Selective Service deferments and a final medical exemption for that kept him out of the draft . Critics and fact-checkers characterize that outcome as “d...
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 ...
Publicly available primary-source Selective Service paperwork establishes that received multiple college deferments in the 1960s and then a medical classification (1‑Y) in 1968, later reclassified to ...
did not serve in the draft: public records and contemporary reporting show he received four educational deferments and a later medical deferment for bone spurs that kept him out of service . Critics l...
did not "avoid the draft" in the sense that he took steps to escape conscription during the : he was born in 1961 and was a child when the draft ended, and the historical record and government agencie...
The December 1, 1969 draft lottery converted a previously age‑based system into a public, birth‑date‑based random selection process, pairing every day of the year with a sequence number drawn from cap...
The 1969 draft lottery assigned every birth date a number from 1 to 366 by drawing blue plastic capsules containing calendar dates; lower numbers meant earlier “order of call” for men born 1944–1950 a...
Donald Trump did receive a medical deferment during the Vietnam-era draft process: contemporaneous reporting and government records show he had four student deferments and a later medical classificati...
Yes: Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era — four student deferments and one medical classification tied to bone spurs in his heels — actions that, combined with other...
received five during the era — four student deferments while in college and a later medical classification that permanently disqualified him from service — a record documented in contemporary reportin...
Donald J. Trump received four student deferments and a medical deferment during the Vietnam draft era; the specific medical condition cited in reporting and by his own accounts was bone spurs in his h...