Honest question: I served 20 years in the Air Force but I never heard of a Marine being drafted. Did that service draft young men? I always assumed it was a volunteer branch of the military.
The Marines had a draft during the Vietnam war. In fact, I was drafted into the Marines but nobody knew it but me.
Here's the story.
When I was at the Oakland, CA Induction Center (March 1969), my group was all sitting down in chairs. Then one of the officials standing said "We need six volunteers from this group for the Marines-who Volunteers?" I think there was two who did volunteer for the Marines, but that was all. So the guy points at four others, one of them being me, saying you four just volunteered for the US Marines--stand over there". I have no doubt he pointed at me, but the guy in the chair behind me got up first, so I just sat there.
I will always wonder what happened to that guy who went in my place.
BTW, I got drafted into the army as an 11B (Infantry), Central Highland Jungles, B-3-8, 4TH Infantry Div. But I got out of Vietnam without as much as a scratch.
-Don- Reno, NV