RuPaul just lied again. HE WAS NOT DRAFTED.
THe Air Force never in it’s history had a draft. I think
RuPaul has dementia.
Your post raised a question for me, which I presume some Freeper can answer. I finally made it to the end of the thread without seeing it answered so I'll post my question back to you.
Dr. Paul served as a flight surgeon. I know they had a "doctor draft" back then as both my father and his brother entered the service that way, although both served in the Army. The way I've been told it worked was physicians to be could sign up and choose when to interrupt their education. If you didn't sign up they could and did draft you right out of school to serve as whatever, but if you signed you were deferred until a time of your choosing. The process was technically voluntary, but a strong enough incentive to provide sufficient physicians, which the army would have otherwise had difficulty securing. It was a good deal for both sides.
What I don't know is, did the doctor draft supply just the army or did it supply all of the services? It was technically voluntary, so technically wouldn't break with Air Force tradition, but it was generally knows as the "doctor draft" so Dr. Paul might be telling the truth here. This might also explain an earlier Dr. Paul statement which then bit Newt. Newt said he wasn't eligible for the draft because he was married with one kid. Dr. Paul responded he went even though he was married with two. The doctor draft might explain why Paul was taken and why he said this but not his many other odd statements.
P.S. I arrived during Dad's service; everything wrong with me comes from being government issue. And although I arrived at Ft. Polk, with parents from IA and MN I doubt I'll ever be considered a "natural born southerner." Dad went in after internship as a general medical officer in the late 50s. His younger brother deferred until after his residency and went in as an Ophthalmologist. Which turned out to be an important job when he was stationed as the only military eye doctor in Korea in the late 60s. The CO there then only had one eye and was understandably concerned about its health!