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The Selective Service Program is and was an imperfect system and it was subject to abuse. There were numerous possibilities to avoid the military draft in the US, here are a few:

  • You had a physical or mental limitation,
  • You were Conscientious Objector,
  • You got a lucky draft selection number,
  • You had a student deferment,
  • You had a wife and numerous children.
  • You were an ordained minister,
  • You held Dual Citizenship, particularly if that was with a belligerent.
  • You might be a convicted felon serving time.
  • You might have been exempted because a parent or sibling had died in combat.
  • There was also a clause or condition called something like the needs of the Government. That might mean anything: you might be a CIA agent, a nuclear physicist, a gifted artist, a member of an astronaut program, the FBI, NSA, Secret Service, or you might just have political connections.
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