Military Draft Notice Letter...

[natehale1971]

I was looking up draft notice letters... and found this,

http://www.namsense.com/images/Draft%20Notice.jpg

Inspired me to write up one for Twlight 2000...

SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
ORDER TO REPORT FOR INDUCTUION

Local Board Stamp: ____________________________________________
DATE OF MAILING: ___________________________________________
SELECTIVE SERVICE No.: ___________________________________________

The President of the United States,

To __________________________________________________ _____
__________________________________________________ _____
__________________________________________________ _____

Greeting:

You are hereby ordered to report for induction into the ARMED FORCES of the UNITED STATES, and to report at __________________________________________________ ______________________ (Place of reporting) on _______________________________ (date) at ________________________ (hour) for forwarding to an ARMED FORCES INDUCTION STATION.

Signed: __________________________________________________ ______
(Member or Clerk of Local Board)

IMPORTANT NOTICE
(Read Each Paragraph Carefully)

IF YOU HAVE HAD PREVIOUS MILITARY SERVICE, OR ARE NOW A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OR A RESERVE COMPONENT OF THE ARMED FORCES, BRING EVIDENCE WITH YOU. IF YOU WEAR GLASSES, BRING THEM. IF MARRIED, BRING PROOF OF YOUR MARRIAGE. IF YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITION WHICH, IN YOUR OPINION, MAY DISQAULIFY YOU FOR SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES, BRING A PHYSICIAN’S CERTIFICATE DESCRIBING THAT CONDITION, IF NO ALREADY FURNISHED TO YOUR LOCAL BOARD.

Valid documents are required to substantiate dependency claims in order to receive basic allowance for quarters. Be sure take the following with you when reporting to the induction station. The Documents will be returned to you. (a) FOR LAWFUL WIFE OR LEGITIMATE CHILD UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE – Original, certified copy or photocopied certified copy of marriage certificate, child’s birth certificate, or a public or church record of marriage issued over the signature and seal of the custodian of the church or public records; (b) FOR LEGALLY ADOPTED CHILD – certified court order of adoption; (c) FOR CHILD OF DIVORCED SERVICE MEMBER (child in the custody of person other than claimant) – (1) Certified or photocopies of receipts from custodian of child evidencing serviceman’s contributions for support, and (2) Divorce decree, court support order or separation order; (d) FOR DEPENDENT PARENT – affidavits establishing that dependency.

Bring your Social Security Card. If you do not have one, apply at the nearest Social Security Administration office. If you have life insurance, bring a record of the insurance company’s address and your policy number. Bring enough clean clothes for 3 days. Bring enough money to last 1 month for personal purchases.

This Local Board will furnish transportation, and meals and lodging when necessary, from the place of reporting to The induction station where you will be examined. If found qualified, you will be inducted into the Armed Forces. If found not qualified, return transportation and meals and lodging when necessary, will be furnished to the place for reporting.

You may be found not qualified for induction. Keep this in mind in arranging your affairs, to prevent any undue hard ship if you are not inducted. If employed, inform your employer of this possibility. Your employer can then be prepared to continue your employment if you are not inducted. To protect your right to return to your job if you are not inducted, you must report for work as soon as possible after the completion of your induction examination. You may jeopardize your reemployment rights if you do not report for work at the beginning of your next regularly scheduled working period after you have returned to your place of employment.

Willful failure to report at the place and hour of the day named in this Order subjects the violator to fine and imprisonment. Bring this Order with you when you report.

If you are so far from your own local board that reporting in compliance with this Order will be a serious hardship, go immediately to any local board and make written request for transfer of your delivery for induction, taking this Order with you.

SSS Form 252 (Revised 01-01-00)

U.S. Government Printing Office: 2000 0-785-193

[Graebarde]

LOL... I remember getting one of those in 1969. I was in Nam at the time.

[Targan]

Hah! Funny... kind of. Maybe not for you at the time. Were you a volunteer or did the government try to draft you twice?

[natehale1971]

My dad had volunteered, and got his draft notice a year and half after having been in Vietnam... we have all his records. But mom won't let us touch them since he died. All of his stuff has become pretty much a shrine to dad. and she doesn't leave the house if she doesn't need anything. it's been really sad. and painful.

[Graebarde]

Originally Posted by Targan

Hah! Funny... kind of. Maybe not for you at the time. Were you a volunteer or did the government try to draft you twice?

RA all the way.

[rcaf_777]

Any thoughts on how the draft would play out in the TW 2000 world?

[Panther Al]

Years and years ago, my grandfather showed me his Draft Notice for the US Army for WW2, and then he showed me a pic of him holding it in front of his Matilda II in NA- he was a member of the RTR at the time. I asked how on earth he wound up with a US Draft Notice, and he says few years before the war he was trying very hard to chase down a woman he liked in Northern Maine, and in order to help out wound up getting a full set of US documents. It didn't work out, and wound up moving to England, and then the Army when Munich happened.

Not sure on the story, but the notice and the pic sold me on the overall facts of the matter.

His story on Arras is amusing to say the least.