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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.
At any rate, I was safe, and home free, and no longer affected by the draft. I hardly noticed the draft-related events of the next few years: In 1973 the draft ended, in 1974 President Ford offered conditional amnesty to the draft dodgers â 40 years ago today â and in 1975 the war ended. But by then the draft had already done great damage to the U.S. military and its image.