Having reached draft age, he was then called up for military service.

However, it changed the draft age from seventeen to fifty.

A great number of the soldiers were teen-agers, too, draft age being 18.

To further conscription during the War, the draft age was lowered to 17.

The extreme broadening of the draft age could have increased the opposition to the war.

Men of draft age were not urged to join.

He was 16 years old, draft age, and so denied permission to emigrate with his family.

He was treated no differently from the rest of us of draft age.

One of her brothers died a soldier, she said, and another is now of draft age.

Military police would seal off public areas, such as squares, and round up anyone who looked to be draft age".

Two decades ago, 90 percent or more of eligible men went into the army once they reached the draft age of 18.

For starters, a peacetime Army could not absorb all the men and women who turn 18, draft age, each year.

The fees are said to be whatever the market can bear, with heavy supplements for young men nearing draft age.

Although over the draft age, his father volunteered for active duty and was killed in action in 1943.

November 18 (Home front) The draft age is lowered to eighteen years.

They ought to make the minimum draft age fifty-five.

"I remind them that we all have boys and that they'll soon be of draft age.

But I can't make him simultaneously of draft age and of junior high school age.

He was not of draft age, but grabbed the opportunity because he was unhappy with American political conditions.

"Most of them are men of draft age, and the Serbs' stated position is that they have been taken away for screening.

At that time the draft age was 21, and we had assumed that you could finish college and then go into the military.

Most members were either below or well above draft age, and many fans from around the country visited en route to the war in the Pacific.

This decision is a life-threatening and a family-threatening danger to every girl who is draft age now or in the future.

The question men of draft age faced after Pearl Harbor was whether they would serve their country in an unambiguously good cause.

Notably, the demographic including all draft age men (males 21 to 29) reported 64 percent believed the draft to be fair.