Been reading about WWII (again) and how Germany towards the end began to simply run out of men, to the extent of putting together men with stomach problems and sending them back out and at the very end scraping the bottom of the barrel and sending out kids and old men, nicknamed ‘casserole divisions’ by the regular army as they were a mix of old meat and green vegetables.
How badly would a war have to be going before you got called up?
I’m old but just recently retired from the National Guard so probably before a full scale draft. I’m too old and broken to handle sustained frontline duty but I could do any sort of POG/REMF duty that is needed.
I’m a longtime separated Regular officer. So legally (IIRC) I’m in the lifetime Inactive Reserve. But it’s been almost 30 years since I was active duty and I never did any Reserve / Guard stuff.
Practically speaking we’d have to pretty far down to the dregs before they call me to do anything, whether that’s being a clerk or a human tank trap.
The invaders would have significant footholds on North America before they’d issue my serial number.
I’d be in one of those casserole divisions.
Well, I don’t live in America now, so it would be for them to actually draft me, but I could do something in the rear.
I’m concerned that if Hillary is elected and starts up a bunch of wars, they’ll need a new Volkssturm and I could be drafted.
At the same time, she’ll drain the military budget so we can send everyone to college for free, there won’t be any money to issue weapons, and my comrades and I will have to use pikes. 
If a war was going so bad that I would have to be drafted I would have volunteered already or refused to serve. Either way it would be going very badly.
At 62, I’d definitely be at the bottom of any barrel they’d be scraping. Plus I doubt there’s a uniform that would fit me. And I don’t know if it counts, but I did 11 years of active duty already, from '73 - '84. I’d like to think I’ve done my part.
Both sides would have gone full nuclear two years before anyone would even think about drafting me.
I am in good health and served in the Canadian Forces.
Fact is, I’d never be drafted. I am 44 and have children; they would not have drafted me in World War II, and that was as bad as it can get. A global war of that scale would unquestionably go nuclear, but even if it remained conventional they don’t draft people as old as me unless they have a really unusual skill, which I do not have. The only way it could be worse is if Canada were invaded by the United States, in which case the war would be over in a week or two and nobody would get around to starting a draft.
They might put me in charge of the healthcare of POWs, I suppose. Otherwise at 58 and in a critical civilian profession I don’t think I’d be attractive to them.
As a former commo guy with an outdated skill set (on military gear anyway) I’m probably not too useful as a forward deployed troop. As a longtime audio engineer and media producer they’d probably find me useful in some REMF media or audio gig though. Which is fine, as much as I’d like to think of myself as active and energetic I’m far too old and fat to do much wiredogging or RTO duties these days.
I’m female. There are a few countries which do or did draft women, but right now the only one I can think of is Israel.
I’d be so far down on the list I couldn’t be drafted because I would be the last one left alive.
I’m 69 years old with a heart condition. The only way I’m going into combat is if someone shows up in my yard with a rifle.
Over 50, female, blind as a bat without my glasses, multiple allergies including to food…
Well, maybe as a pilot. Or a drone pilot… but they’d have to be pretty desperate.
This is more of less my situation. For things to be so bad that people my age are draft bait would have to be something really, really bad like the Hero Cities during World War II and I would like to think before things had reached that point (or were just on the brink) I would be willing to volunteer to do whatever I could. I am a decent shot. I suppose I could volunteer as a sniper.
Like Woody Allen, if war came I’d be classified “4-P.”
“Hostage.”
55, insulin-dependent diabetic. They’d draft all the women before they drafted me.
