You're quite welcome; I was just doing my job (and staying out of the draft). We didn't have lottery numbers when I flunked out of college in 1966. Once the student deferment was gone, so were you.
If I'm not mistaken, they were considering drafting into the Marine Corps as well as the Army at that point in time. I don't know if they did or not but I wasn't willing to chance it. The Marine Corps was looking for 'A Few Good Men' who really wanted to be there. I can't imagine that Marine draftees were treated any better than some Army draftees that I had gone to school with.
And for the correction in jargon.
No problem. I think it's a deliberate attempt on the rats' part to exaggerate J F'n K's 'career'.
Draftees were indeed sent to the Marines at that time. At the peak of the manpower shortage, at the induction center those in charge would count out "One, two, three, Marine!" So, one in four draftees (at the height of the conflict)went to the Corps. I later asked a Marine Corps Sgt. if he had any contact with Marines who had been drafted. He said that indeed he had a couple working for him and they were every bit as good as volunteer Marines.