Question about draftees in Vietnam War. Would a man who had very poor vision be sent

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15. If you have "Mr. Magoo" vision, having your glasses knocked off is a death sentence

But you'd have to ask the military directly.

My father was like that, and apparently it was a dominant gene, because 3 out of his 4 kids inherited severe myopia. To my surprise, I may have been the least affected, because my "good eye" was about 500/20 and my "bad eye" was nearly 1000/20. I don't remember the figures for the astigmatism, but it was also bad. I bought myself (hard) contacts at age 21 and had LASIK at about 60, when the technology advanced enough to handle eyes like mine.

Dad memorized the eye chart to get into the service after Pearl Harbor, but he was put to work as an aircraft mechanic, not sent to fight directly.

My brother got deferred from Vietnam because of a double hernia, so I guess the issue of his horrible eyesight never came up.