[P-Marlowe]

I joined the Army. Earned 5 years of college/master with a 4 year contribution of time.

I dodged the draft. Actually, the draft dodged me. But that's a long story.

[xzins]

I was draftable, but joined instead.

It was Vietnam era. You don’t have to tell your story. I already know it; lived it along with 10s of millions of young men our age who had the same decisions to make at the time.

And especially after the government gave up trying to win that war in about 1969/70.