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Vietnam War draft process

The process of drafting soldiers during the Vietnam War, including deferments and the lottery system

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Jan 23, 2026
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What evidence exists about Donald Trump’s draft deferments and the bone‑spur medical records?

received five Vietnam‑era draft deferments—four student deferments and a later medical deferment for in his heels—which together kept him out of Vietnam, and official records confirming the deferments...

Jan 25, 2026
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What evidence exists about podiatrist Larry Braunstein's alleged role in issuing bone-spur diagnoses during the Vietnam draft era?

The publicly available evidence that played a role in President ’s 1968 rests primarily on interviews with Braunstein’s two daughters and reporting by , which relayed their account and related propert...