CURTIS TARR, Former Head of the Selective Service (died June 21, 2013)
That would be Selective Service as in the word DRAFT. Greetings from Uncle Sam.
Mr. Tarr was appointed head of the Selective Service by President Richard Nixon in 1970. He oversaw the switch to the so-called Draft Lottery, whose first drawing was held December 1969. Before that, local draft boards had control over who was called and who wasn't.
The new lottery took local personalities out os the system and according to Dick Flahavan, made it "much fairer, much more objective, more efficient."
Each day of the year was assigned a randomly drawn number from 1-365. If your birthday was May 1st and the number 100 drawn for it, that would mean you wouldn't be drafted until days with numbers 1-99 repoted for duty.
Flahavan again said, "It obviously was a big deal for young men who were the appropriate age." No kidding!!!!
The Lottery was introduced as the war was winding down. In 1970, birthdays to 195 were selected to serve. The following year it was 125 and the next year there were enough volunteers to fill the needs. No draft.
Tarr led the Selective Service until May 1972.
Me and the Draft Next.
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