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Many are just now having physicals as draft boards reduce the backlog which built up while the nation awaited the outcome of the lottery. Since not all the 1-A's with low numbers were in the pool (that is, totally processed) earlier this year, the Pentagon has been forced to dig deeper into the numbers to meet its quotas. While the pool changes each month, the order of call reverts back to number one each month and goes as far as the number set by Washington. For example, the March call was not only for numbers sixty to ninety...
...reasonable direction for lottery quotas to take (assuming relatively even monthly draft calls with a reduction around November because of the Congressional elections) would be to continue at the present rate of thirty per month, slipping perhaps to twenty or twenty-five in July or August as the pool begins to swell with recent graduates and men who pass physicals. Also, by then, all who graduated in June, 1969, will have exhausted their appeals and be draft able...
...those whose occupational deferments and student deferments lapse, the pool will swell still further. At the present rate, =230 or #240 would be reached by the eighth month, August (draft calls for May are up to ?145). Draft boards are required to return to number one each onth. Under the current system, it is possible that aspreviously deferred men whose numbers have already been reached join the pool, the Pentagon will have to go a much shorter way down the list of numbers to fill its quota-perhaps only as far as =200 in September or later months. Thus...
This would raise some interesting legal questions. A number (say 250) might be reached one month and then not reached again this year. Those with number 250 who were draft-able that month would go, while those with deferments. those still appealing their 1-A or those who had not yet taken physicals would not be drafted that month. Assuming the lottery peaks that month and then regresses. not reaching 250 again. some one with 250 not available that month might be exempt from the draft. Or would he? Could the man who was 250 and was drafted file...
AMBIGUITY arises if your number was reached in September when your appeal was being processed (say your number is 250) but-because of the rapidly growing pool-when you finally enter the pool, say in November or December, the lottery does not reach 250. Are you draft-able because your number has been reached, or are you free because you were draft-able on the last day of the year and your number was not reached? Admittedly this is a somewhat unlikely situation and would affect only a few people, but it raises some interesting legal questions and could create...