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Were doctors who were drafted in the 1950/1960 years, compelled to take an officer's oath of allegiance?
Anyone who's ever watched M*A*S*H, knows that many of the doctors there, didn't want to be there, and had been drafted. Then I recently ran across this (non-official) article, which says
Officers on ...
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Were Communists drafted for the Vietnam war?
Given that it wasn't illegal to be a member of a Communist party in the US, how did the military handle draftees who might be sympathetic to North Vietnam? Were men who were members of the Communist ...
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How many ministerial deferments were there during WWII for the United States?
How many, or what percentage of eligible inductees were excused by way of a 2-D or 4-D during WWII?
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