I was born in 1963, so the draft ended before I turned 18. My question is, if you received your draft notice, could you then immediately enlist in a different branch to avoid the army, or did you have to enlist before you received your draft notice? I was telling my daughter about the four uncles that served in the military during the Vietnam war, only one of which was army (drafted and served the entire time INCONUS). She asked me if the others enlisted in the other branches to avoid being drafted into the army and I don't know if that was possible.