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Not so crazy, but my high school history teacher was a young man in America when the Vietnam war broke out. He made the wise choice of joining the navy, because Vietnam didn't have a navy. As he told the story, while those other guys were in Vietnam getting torn apart by Charlie, he was on shore leave in Italian ports. Then he would take a dramatic pause and then say to our class "war is hell"

There's the story of singer Ted Nugent who, like his fellow far-right "patriot" buddy Trump, dodged the draft during Vietnam. He apparently refused to bathe for months and kept shitting his pants so that they'd declare him unfit for service and it worked.

Lie about having bone spurs.

For all dodgers whatever side you are on, esp russians:

The best strategy is keeping a low profile and contact government\banks\services as few times as possible, prefering cash over cards, being unofficially employed in a small company that don't play politics (some big employers had rectuiting quotas to please the admin) while living in a place other than your official registration. And not going anywhere even if called in: first time it's just a fee, and there weren't much noise about someone getting it as long as they are out of rec. center, in educational center or in armed forces where it becomes a crime with a heavy punishment.

I know some people draft dodge by joining organized crime, a position which they in turn use to help others draft dodge who in turn join organized crime, and the cycle continues.

Just an idea: Do they have to pay you extra if you have special financial duties?

I know someone who did that, but in a very different country: married at very young age and made children, built a new house for his family on a debt basis, had a disabled parent who needed lots of extra care etc. and all of this was just barely possible because he was young and working very hard.

Now, in case the would have drawn him, they would have to pay a multitude of a normal soldiers's money. And they did not like to do that.