What is "draftees"

Usage examples of "draftees".

But the windows that we had glimpsed from the outside were all forward in the pilot's compartment, while we draftees were jammed into a windowless metal chamber.

Wheh all the draftees had been dispersed about the land I would consider the next step.

Like twenty-five percent of the other draftees, Recruit Craig had two or more years of college, in his case Princeton.

He and sixty-six other young men, most of them draftees, had been taken by bus to Fort Dix, New Jersey, where they were given a series of inoculations designed to protect them from disease.

He still disliked draftees and Yankees, and held in even greater contempt Yankee draftees who had gone to college and thought their shit didn't stink.

Observe that the more technological branches of our armed services—such as the Navy and the Air Force—do not accept draftees and are made up of volunteers.

The second of those bills had an interesting quirk: drafted labor, it proposed, would be paid a union scale of wages—in order not to undercut union scales—but, in "fairness" to the military draftees, the labor draftees would be given only the equivalent of army pay, and the rest of their wages would go to the government (!

Same problem Ellayway, though there the hirer was government, drecking the draftees to the Pacific Conflict Zone, but who's richer than a government?

His eyes wandered to the office's single window, which overlooked a parade-floor where a group of raw draftees were doubling to and fro.