December 1969

The Draft Lottery 01 Dec 1969The Draft Lottery is instituted in an effort to reduce criticism of the draft as unfair.Jim Good arrives in country. President Nixon announces "we will have peace in our time." For I Corps, this means that the 3rd Marines finally go back to the world and we get to takeover their very nice quarters at Quang Tri. No cav hands filled any of the hundreds of sandbags. HQ moves there.The troop returns to the DMZ from its last assignment at Cua Viet in time to celebrate Christmas and New Years. 10Dec We have moved from LZ Nancy…