Bill your dates remind me of mine, December 15, 1965 to November 30, 1967. I was let out early to make room for all the new recruits coming in. Went in at Ft. Dix and let out at Ft. Dix. When I was drafted my dad drove me down to the induction center and said to me, don't feel bad you are going in for 24 months, I was a prisoner for 28 months. Never talked about it but found out his whole battalion was captured in northern Africa and was sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He did tell me later that one of his guards was a college student in Chicago and went back to Germany right after and said that if he knew the war was going to start he would have never left America. My dad said he was treated ok under the circumstances. Irony is I was sent to Germany and was stationed outside of Frankfort in a casern outside of Butzbach with the 503 Military Police.
