“Greeting, From the President of the United States”

I enlisted after receiving my Presidential Draft “Invitation”.The Draft called for an enlistment of 2 years, but the “rub” was that Uncle Sam could assign you to whatever Godforsaken duty he pleased if you simply entered for your 2 year obligation. The military took advantage of this by allowing draftees to seek out an enlistment of their choice in any available U.S. Armed Forces entity….but an enlistment was for a minimum of three years as opposed to the draft’s two tears. The advantage to enlisting was that one could enlist to a guaranteed Military Occupational Specialty. This “MOS “or “job” in civilian terms, would be a way to avoid an enlistment in a direct “Combat Arms” unit…Infantry, Armor, Artillery…come to mind, but Infantry was the fear of most.