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The impact of student deferments on the Vietnam War draft, including increased college attendance and socioeconomic disparities
Bone-spur deferments were a recognizable and repeatedly cited medical route for avoiding Vietnam-era service, often invoked in political rhetoric and reporting about high-profile figures . Contemporar...
The most common reasons young American men avoided induction into the Vietnam-era draft were legal deferments for education, family dependency, medical or psychological disqualification, and occupatio...
Multiple legal pathways existed during the Vietnam-era Selective Service that allowed well-connected or otherwise eligible men to postpone or avoid induction—most commonly student deferments, medical ...