Bias_2012 wrote on Mar 14
th, 2024 at 8:23pm:
... And I'm still trying to figure out how they got our names and birth dates for the call-up.
State Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
This site may be of interest. It also includes the list of dates (
allegedlydrawn—in private!) of those called up.
Appendix - The national service scheme, 1964-72.
Several commentators of the time suggested that the ballot was rigged
in order to satisfy a specific number of men required to maintain an
army base number of 33,000 men at all times.
Say, for example, in April 1967, 230 twenty-year olds were born on
19 February 1947, but only 95 were born on 22 February that year,
then the number 19 would be drawn—giving the army a known number
of men for any specific date and a specific intake.
Apart from the very first draw of the ballot, no others were ever recorded
on film. I wonder why?