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Not really a dodge because his unit could have been called up. College students got deferments, others signed up for the Air Force or Navy, so they wouldn't serve in the Infantry. Was everyone who enlisted in the Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, and National Guard from the mid 60's to the early 70's a dodger? The only non dodgers were Army and Marine infantry? That means that the majority of the US armed forces during this period was made up of dodgers. No, it wasn't a dodge at all. People who skipped the country or refused to register were dodgers.
The guard existed before Vietnam, and it exists now. It's insulting to the Guardsmen who are being called up today to say that joining the Guard is a dodge.
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