While writing a new book, I’ve come up with a situation that calls for my main character to get drafted into the military. Problem is, as you might have guessed by my location alone, is that I’ve never been alive for a draft, and my information regarding this subject is very limited. None of my family was drafted, and not many adults I know were drafted, or at least, they won’t admit to it. I was hoping that there would be some Dopers from the Vietnam (or maybe even earlier) era that were drafted or knew of somebody who was drafted in hopes that they could relate their story so I could get a better idea of what exactly happened when somebody was drafted and what you’d have to go through if you were drafted. Could somebody help me, please?
This could possibly go in GQ, but it seemed to me as everybody expierience would be different, so there wouldn’t be one, single factual answer. Besides, this thread could spur some sort of discussion between veterans.