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Re:Australia’s secret propaganda unit by rswail on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:36AM (#31810854)
We didn't have conscription in WW1, but we did in WW2 and then "National Service" in the 50s. In the 60s there was a draft that had a "ball draw" every month with the date (a ball numbered from 1-28/30/31) and if you turned 18 on that date of the month, you were drafted.

There were exemptions but it still seems a cruel form of gambling in a way.

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Re:Australia’s secret propaganda unit by opo on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:07PM (#31871482)
>We didn't have conscription in WW1, ...

There was a military draft in WW I:

>...By the end of World War I, some two million men volunteered for various branches of the armed services, and some 2.8 million had been drafted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917

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