Hello, Does anyone have information or knowledge on restrictions for recruitment and draft? Specifically height, weight, health and psychological and Army. What are some things, like health or psychological problems, that might have held someone back from being able to enlist or be drafted? What injuries would send a soldier home verses holding them to join another platoon? Any information is welcome! Thanks so much
Found this for 4-F deferments: The 4-F Classification After the draft was instituted in 1940, not all of the young men who registered were accepted into the service. Thirty percent of registrants across America were rejected for physical defects. The 4-F classification was given primarily for muscular and bone malformations, hearing or circulatory ailments, mental deficiency or disease, hernias, and syphilis. http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0800/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0800/stories/0801_0106.html
I understand we are more focusing in the era of World War II, but I am using this as an example that seems appropriate. An example of this kind of restraint, 4-F classification, is when my uncle was rejected from the service during the Vietnam War because he had flatfoot. During WWII and the Korean War people who had flatfoot were definitely rejected on the basis of this condition
