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You were in "for the duration" of the emergency. By 1945 soldiers in the Pacific were saying to one another "Golden Gate in Forty-Eight", "Bread line in Forty-nine" expressing their expectations of their future and how long the war would last.
The draft began while the US was still at peace, in August 1940, to bring the Army up to one million. These initial draftees were supposed to serve one year. The legislation came up for renewal in August, 1941, and passed by one single vote. As part of this new legislation all the men already drafted were kept in the service. Naturally this produced a lot of discontent. Men were chalking "Ohio" surreptitiously around army bases for the next few months - "Over the Hill in October". After Pearl Harbor anyone who was in was staying in, no matter if your enlistment expired. If you tried to make a stink, in some cases, you'd be discharged, then immediately drafted on the spot. There was no getting out.
By 1945 the army had instituted a "point system" to try to be fair about who got rotated back to the states. You got one point for every month in the service, another point for every month overseas, five points for every campaign, five points for every medal, five points for every wound, points for being married, and so on. You needed eighty-five points to get rotated back to the states.
When the war ended in Europe some divisions had been there a long time and seen a lot of action, while others had barely arrived. The units which had not seen much combat were put aboard the scarce shipping available and sent back to the US to be transshipped to the west coast, and then on to the Pacific for the climactic assault against the home islands of Japan. Many of these guys were in the states when the bombs dropped and got out of the service almost right away. Meanwhile, men in long-serving units were still squatting in devastated Europe where even decent food was hard to come by, and many of them did not get home until 1946, and only after Congressional hearings on the issue had begun. So some draftees from 1940 probably were in until 1946, while others drafted in 1944 or 1945 got out in 1945.
Two army terms entered general civilian usage - SNAFU (Situation Normal, ALL F(sanitized)ouled Up, and FUBAR (F(sanitized)ouled Up Beyond All Redemption) to express the GIs experience in the toils of the military.
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