easy medical tactic to get out of the draft

[ringmastery]

Go to your doctor and tell them you are depressed and suicidal. They give out anti-depressants now like candy. Anyone can fake this. Save the prescription. Throw the meds they give you in the garbage. Don't put that poison in your body.

Once you get drafted, show the draft board the records that you have mental health issues and are suicidal and on anti-depressants.

They will consider you mentally unsuitable.

[hotelmotel]

1. heh

and now somebody else has to take your place.. I honestly dont think dodging is an effective tactic AGAINST the draft

[mike_c]

2. shrink, I wanna kill....

eom

[wuushew]

What about all the PTSD and suicidal people in Iraq now?

Many many unfit soliders are being compelled to serve in Iraq currently.

[kalian]

3. Too dangerous....

companies can now look at your medical records...and thus you might
not get a job if you're unemployed. If you are employed, you might
be "monitored". Be cautious with such tactics since this information
can (and will) be used against you.

[NNN0LHI]

10. I think using cash rather than insurance and going to the next town over..

...to see a shrink might alleviate that possibility.

Don

[Count Dracula]

4. Wouldn't telling them that you're suicidal make them...

want to send you over to war? I mean, after all, you ARE suicidal. They won't care if you die or not. :shrug:

[ringmastery]

7. I seem to remember

the military considers you to be unfit if you've ever taken anti-depressents.

Maybe that's an old rule, but it should be an easy medical deferment, if they still hold that to be true.

[Count Dracula]

9. Well then I won't be drafted.

:)

[Vickers]

11. C'mon, haven't you ever read Catch-22 ???

It explains ALL that!

:toast:

[LittleApple81]

5. Wasn't it in Bonnie and Clyde where he shot off some of his toes not

to avoid the draft?
Radical but would it still work?

[wuushew]

6. what about the tried and true method of shooting yourself in the foot?

It was always a favorite topic on M*A*S*H and irratated Frank Burns to no end.

[Bozita]

8. How about the Ted Nugent method?

[LittleApple81]

12. What is the Ted Nugent method? n/t

[wuushew]

13. Shitting yourself and never bathing

n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. He stopped changing clothes and bathing about 6 weeks before

his appointed physical. Then he did not defecate for two days, and as they told him to strip, he crapped right on the floor.
They threw him out.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. My cousin's son just got out of the USMC by claiming to be gay

It took a few months, but he is out and free now, while his company is over there again.

Use their own fear and ignorance against them.

[TriMetFan]

16. Just say your GAY/LESBIAN!

[strategery blunder]

17. Why should I bother?

Seriously, my vision is 20/300 (or do I have it backwards?) without my glasses. When I show up for the physical, I won't wear them.

If that doesn't work, THEN I'll probably claim that I'm gay. Gotta do what I have to do, I guess.

[Corgigal]

18. A friend of mine (a doc)

got back from Iraq a few months ago and told me they wouldn't allow anyone to do any outside sports because all the active duty people were trying to break their shooting hand. Anything to that hand and you cant go.