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    With UKicon National Service you could "Defer" your "Call-UP" for certain reasons and under certain conditions. I'll see if I can reproduce the rules which are included in the notes in a larger scale pic another day. It was quite common to "Defer" Nation Service while studying at college etc and then do National Service or in my uncle's case, after "Deferring" and spending 4 years studying at college, National Service had ended.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldpaul View Post
    By the by, I avoided the draft in 1967 by joining the Army. Tom
    Good one...out of the frying pan...

    Quote Originally Posted by Daan Kemp View Post
    Never regretted my 30 years service.
    Me neither, even the broken pieces are acceptable because of it. Ours has been volunteer since WW2.
    Regards, Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    Good one...out of the frying pan..
    gave me a good chuckle too thanks. My dad dodged the vietnam draft by with a voluntary vacation to MCRD San Diego. I don't hold it against him, but I learned the hard way that Parris Island is the more prestigious vacation spot lol...those girls sunbathing on the beach at Hilton head that could just be seen just across the channel from our favorite swamp to march in made all the difference lol.

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    Those who had secured a U.K. university place (a much smaller section of the population in those days) could opt to defer their National Service until after they had graduated - although many preferred to do it first and 'get it out of the way'. Medical students had an indefinite deferment which amounted to exemption. There was much less 'dodging the column' in the National Service era anyway - partly because there was no major war on for most of it, partly because there was still a cultural expectation that you would do it, most of their parents had had to do their bit in WW2 and didn't see why you shouldn't have to go as well. The draft ended before that Sixties counter culture got going.

    My late father had a lifelong dislike for Colin Cowdrey, perceiving him to have got out of National Service by playing cricket. He wasn't the only one who took that view.

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