What is "draftee"

Usage examples of "draftee".

So that is how this anti- war activist, a near- blind, bumbling draftee, became a second lieutenant leading an army platoon in the war against Japan in the South Pacific.

They enjoyed showing him the new guitar, and the awed attention they were getting from the frightened draftee faces.

First one noncom then another trying his skill, as if they were all bucking to become recruit instructors to the gook draftees that were beginning to come in now from the peacetime draft.

If they aint they will, soon as these young virgin draftees start comin in and the Future Gold Star Mothers of America make the whole Army go respectable for the duration.

Probly he explained it to himself by some sentimental crap about us old-timers got to stick together, with so many draftees about to take over the Compny.

Army like draftees will never know it, that was just what they expected to happen if the Island was ever attacked.

It was funny how quick the draftees in the Company had fallen into the scheme of things and picked up the Blue Chancre as their hangout.

Mrs Kipfer had just got in a shipment of four new heaves, to help take care of the influx of draftees that was raising Company strengths all over Schofield.

They would put him to teaching draftees about machineguns in the States someplace, for a year, maybe two years, maybe even till the end of the war.

It was his impression that only about a quarter or a fifth of the draftees actually got an organ call.

Which is that as the number of draftees increases, it will come to encompass a majority or even a totality of the population, and eventually everybody will have a 6-A Preferred Recipient status by virtue of having donated, and the term Preferred Recipient will cease to have any meaning.

Marines first - there were no draftees here - then done so again to join the elite within the elite.

His high explosives team of half a dozen draftees sat in undershirts, bathing shorts and handkerchiefs worn on the head pirate-style.

Half of his crew were draftees on their first operational cruise, and even the more experienced men knew little enough.

After retrieving her pots and pans and persuading her militia draftees to resume their original positions as maids, table servers, cooks and scullery personnel, she whipped up a great victory feast from what was left in the royal pantry.