we're almost at 4 pages already. This is unreal.
Earlier Slate asked a Q about the ping pong process. Picture a big spinning basket like you'd see at bingo. In it they'd put 365 ping pong balls, each with a day of the year in it. Once a year they'd select the draft order by picking ping pong balls, usually done by the director of selective service. For us it'd be a draft party. Everyone would gather round and the director would pull out a ball and whatever date was inside would be the first batch of draftees selected. For example the first ball chosen is March 1, those born on March 1 would be the first to be drafted. They'd select all 365 balls and that was the draft order that would be used the following year. So after the draft order was established everyone knew where they stood the next year so you could use that year to start calling in favors if you had them to get in the navy, air force, guard, reserve, seminary, medical excuse, travel plans to Canada or Sweden, etc.
Play ball.
