How to Successfully Dodge the Draft

[macsen rufus]

DemonArchangel: you must be officially an "unhinged loon" (-3 morale)

More seriously, I guess you've got yourself into what in Britain is known as a "reserved occupation". At a time when I was considering becoming a pharmacist its various plus-points included that reserved status ("get out of the war free") and a right to refuse jury service. Long story why I'm not a pharmacist after all, but I guess I'm a bit past it for call-up now, and I'd actually quite like to do jury service...

[Vladimir]

Kiss your recruiter full on the lips and fondle his wee wee. Saying you’re gay isn’t enough. The Army wants proof!

[CrossLOPER]

Hmm...

-drink one teaspoon of iodine
-cut off a non-vital body part
-show up high
-get arrested
-live with eastern outlander Christians
-RETURN THE THRONE OF MANSIE FLESH TO THE WOODSIE ONE!!!
-hand out anti-draft propaganda leaflets... and get arrested
-deify yourself
-deify someone else
-go crazy nuts
-go crazy nuts in a Wal-Mart with a machete
-become inexcusably rich
-... more to come...

[Rodion Romanovich]

Depending on how many people the draft covers, it can be easy or not to escape it. Say if it's 50% draft, you only have to be worse than half of your friends to escape it. That doesn't require much, and you can always do a bit of acting. Or you can just say you're pacifist and say they'll throw away money if they give you the education. They might put you in jail for a little while, or preferably they realize that it's for their own best to not have a coward or a pacifist (if that is true) in their army... However if it's a 100% draft then trying to escape isn't really a good idea...

[Redleg]

Stay in school
Move to Canada
If you were born in another nation change your citizenship. Only works if you are under 21 however.
Fill a consience (SP) objector status on your draft card, you might want to become a Quaker before filling this one out though to give it creditablity.

[Productivity]

Fill a consience (SP) objector status on your draft card, you might want to become a Quaker before filling this one out though to give it creditablity.

I'm curious about this, is there a discretionary choice made at some stage whether a concientious objector is actually one or if they are just slack, for which being a Quaker would obviously help. It just seems a little... strange that you would have to use religion to back up your right to object to war.

Bloody hell, it doesn't even exist so this is a hypothetical exercise at best...

[Redleg]

I'm curious about this, is there a discretionary choice made at some stage whether a concientious objector is actually one or if they are just slack, for which being a Quaker would obviously help. It just seems a little... strange that you would have to use religion to back up your right to object to war.

Bloody hell, it doesn't even exist so this is a hypothetical exercise at best...

Its was on the enlistment contract back in the 1980's. Is it still there I don't know.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Depending on how many people the draft covers, it can be easy or not to escape it. Say if it's 50% draft, you only have to be worse than half of your friends to escape it. That doesn't require much, and you can always do a bit of acting. Or you can just say you're pacifist and say they'll throw away money if they give you the education. They might put you in jail for a little while, or preferably they realize that it's for their own best to not have a coward or a pacifist (if that is true) in their army... However if it's a 100% draft then trying to escape isn't really a good idea...

By the way, I must add this below since I don't have edit button:

I don't know whether cheating the tests is illegal or not everywhere, but I don't think it's illegal (sorry if I said something unallowed, I don't know the laws of the entire world by heart).

However, what I know for sure is that it's illegal to refuse service IF once they've assigned you to one. What I meant with "do blah and you get short jail term" isn't a promotion of illegal activity, but that I wanted to explain that they sometimes like to trick people to do illegal stuff so they can put them in jail. It's happened friends of mine (not in the USA) that they get sadistic when they hear you're pacifist or say you're coward, and put you in some service you aren't physically fit for as a "punishment", then you MUST refuse because you CAN'T survive the service, and they'll then have made you do something that they're authorised to put you in jail for. Same with cheating the tests (to get lower score than you really have) - it might trigger the same kind of reprisals.

[Vuk]

[QUOTE=CrossLOPER]
-RETURN THE THRONE OF MANSIE FLESH TO THE WOODSIE ONE!!!
QUOTE]

I'm gonna say that you are a Thief player. lol

[Lorenzo_H]

do the democrats want a draft? I thought they were the party that was against such things and wants to pull out of Iraq!

[Rodion Romanovich]

[QUOTE=Vuk]

-RETURN THE THRONE OF MANSIE FLESH TO THE WOODSIE ONE!!!
QUOTE]

I'm gonna say that you are a Thief player. lol

BES THERE A THIEF PLAYER HERE? STRENGTH BE THINE ARM! MAY THY NEXT BLOW STRIKE HOME!

[yesdachi]

There won’t be a draft unless our soil is threatened, big time. Any talk of one is just politicking.

[Kääpäkorven Konsuli]

Draft in Usa? I thougth it was a civiliced country.

[Lorenzo_H]

There won’t be a draft unless our soil is threatened, big time. Any talk of one is just politicking.

*gulp* and when might the soil of the USA be threatened?