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End of Vietnam draft January 27, 1973 - Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces the draft is ended in favor of voluntary enlistment. Nixon changed the draft to a lottery in '71. + 108 others found this useful.
Eventually this practice was ruled unfair (to people who couldn't afford college), so the college exemption was eliminated. In 1969 the Selective Service organized a lottery to decide which boys would be drafted into the military.