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I can explain what it was like waiting to get drafted in the Vietnam era and why the National Guard wasn’t an option, but many wouldn’t understand. A simple explanation of the Vietnam-era Guard or Reserves can be explained by answering this one question:

How many pro athletes and sons of the influential and politically connected were in the Guard and Reserves then and how many are in the Guard and Reserves now?