thus he was granted five deferments and avoided going to war.

Prior to the fall of 71, any college student could receive deferments. Lord Cheney received four deferments, when he was in college. When he had run out the string of deferments for being in college, he got married, because they didn't draft married men. When the exclusion for married men was removed, he got his wife pregnant with their first child. Married men with dependent children were also deferred. By the time he had run that string out, he was over 26, and no longer subject to the draft.

John Wayne was draftable when WWII started. But the studio repeatedly told the draft board Wayne was needed for another film. Wayne and the studio ran that string out, until Wayne aged out of being draftable.

But you knew all that, didn't you.

Steve