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Day Zero is a 2007 American drama film directed by Bryan Gunnar Cole and written by Robert Malkani. Set in the near future when global terrorism has forced the military to reinstate the draft, three young men, who have just received their induction notices and have 30 days to report for duty, must battle their political views before making a decision that will change their lives forever.
Weekend Warriors (also known as Hollywood Air Force) is a 1986 independently made American military service comedy film directed by Bert Convy and starring Chris Lemmon, Vic Tayback, Graham Jarvis, Lloyd Bridges, and Mark L. Taylor. It was distributed by Moviestore Entertainment and produced by Cami Taylor.
There is an obligatory military draft for all young men. [50] Nevertheless, according to Public Radio International, two types of draft evasion are widespread in Colombia; one is prevalent among the relatively well-off, and another is found among the poor. [50] Young men from the middle-to-upper classes "usually" evade the Colombian draft. [50]
A number of autobiographical novels were written by draft evaders who went to Canada [75] [76] Books such as Morton Redner's Getting Out (1971) and Mark Satin's Confessions of a Young Exile (1976), Allen Morgan's Dropping Out in 3/4 Time (1972), and Daniel Peters's Border Crossing (1978) all portrayed their protagonists' views, motives ...
The 25-year-old has no military experience and just became eligible to be conscripted after Ukraine lowered the age men can be drafted from 27 to 25 last month. “I love my country,” he said in ...
There is no official estimate of how many draft evaders and deserters were admitted during the Vietnam War. One estimate puts their number between 30,000 and 40,000. [1] The Canadian government initially refused to admit deserters who could not prove that they had been discharged from American military service; this would change in 1968. [1]
(Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War draft, four because he was a college student and a fifth on account of a doctor’s diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels.) Since 1973 ...
Dwayne Johnson is set to lead upcoming movie The Smashing Machine. The film, produced by independent company A24, will tell the true story of mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr, who was a two ...