Dietrich supporter and publisher Vincent Edward Barbarick (aka "Peter Moon") falsely claims he avoided being drafted during Vietnam by joining the Church of Scientology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBHmpl_-k4I 2:05:25 - 2:o8:50
"Really, really? The Vietnam War as I experienced it was all about the draft, it was like everybody was getting drafted."
According to Mylife.com. Vincent Edward Barbarick was born in 1953 and he would have been age 16 when he said that President Nixon initiated a Draft Lottery.
https://www.mylife.com/vincent-barbarick/e35182005042 "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_lottery_(1969)
"On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War in the year 1970, for men born from January 1, 1944, to December 31, 1950.
These lotteries occurred during a period of conscription in the United States that lasted from 1947 to 1973. It was the first time a lottery system had been used to select men for military service since 1942. The lottery would establish the priority of call based on the birth dates of registrants."
Draft lotteries were conducted again from 1971 to 1975 (for 1952 to 1956 births). The birth year of 1952 was the last draftees, with the assigned number 95 being the last number drafted, which represented those born on July 20, 1952.
The draft numbers issued from 1972 to 1975 were not used to call any men into service as the last draft call was on December 7, and the authority to induct expired on July 1, 1973.[7] They were used, however, to call some men born from 1953 to 1956 for armed forces physical examinations. The highest number called for a physical was 215 (for tables 1970 through 1976).[7] Between 1965 and 1972 the draft provided 2,215,000 service members to the U.S. military".[13]
"Ministers Deferrment":
Moon said, "The student deferment was a good way to avoid the draft, and had I taken advantage of it, the War would have been over, you know, by the time my college would have been done. I ended up with a 'Minister's Deferment in Scientology."
"And I kind of forgot about it, my draft number was not picked and after that, I just forgot about it, I was out of the Country, initially, and I was then protected."
(Moon said he had a draft card and would have to have submitted documentation to the Selective Service as proof of being a Minister in the Church of Scientology).
According to the Scientology website:
"Those trained to deliver Scientology ceremonies and other spiritual counseling are referred to as ministers. It is a prerequisite for permanent certification as an auditor to become an ordained minister, but one need not have this certification to become officially ordained in the Church of Scientology."
https://www.scientology.org/what-is-scientology/scientology-ministry/scientology-ministers.html
The reality is actually that Barbarick was too young to have been drafted during the Vietnam War.
Barbarick would have turned 18 in 1971 and has previously stated he joined the Church of Scientology in 1973. Inductions (drafts) had slowed to a trickle by 1971 as the War in Vietnam drew to an end.
Barbarick would not have been eligible to register for Selective Service until 1971 and would not have been affected by the draft at all, regardless of having a "Minister's Deferment" to the Church of Scientology.
Vietnam Draft ended on January 27, 1973
"On this day in 1973, as the Vietnam War drew to a close, the Selective Service announced that there would be no further draft calls. The decision came several months after President Richard M. Nixon had easily won reelection, running against Democratic Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, an outspoken opponent of the war."
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/01/us-military-draft-ends-jan-27-1973-072085
Other Sources:
https://en.trandaiquang.org/what-were-deferments-during-the-vietnam-war-976
https://cherrieswriter.com/2019/08/11/the-military-draft-during-the-vietnam-war/
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