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Anybody who Numerous Schools and Medical Deferments just to AVOID going to War and Serving this Country doesn't have the RIGHT to Chant "USA"! He Ran Away from the Vietnam War! This Country DOESN'T need a Coward-N-Chief!
Deferments Helped Trump Dodge Vietnam
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None of the other candidates served...as far as I know. Hillary and Bernie BOTH worked with leftist anti-war groups. Obama is good friends with Bill Ayers and he bombed the pentagon and killed police officers. I'm no fan of Trump but all politicians are full of crap.
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Bill Clinton avoided service during Vietnam as well. The fact is, most future Presidents will likely not have served in the military. Trump is a big supporter of the military, didn’t get that feeling from Clinton or Obama.
1LT George Walsh
2020 candidates with military experience struggle to break through
Of the three veterans remaining in the Democratic campaign, Pete Buttigieg hasn’t cracked double digits in national polling. Tulsi Gabbard failed to qualify for the third debate in Houston on Thursday. Joe Sestak, a retired admiral, has 0% support in an aggregate of polls.
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To the best of our knowledge, no one has charged Trump with violating the Selective Service law. His student deferments were routine. And unless someone has new information, there is no legal issue with his medical deferment.
To the best of our knowledge, no one has charged Trump with violating the Selective Service law. His student deferments were routine. And unless someone has new information, there is no legal issue with his medical deferment.
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Maj John Bell
SPC Andrew Griffin - So does your judgment of cowardice extend to everyone eligible for the draft during Vietnam, who did not serve. If so, 90.3% of military service eligible American males who reached the age of 19 between 1964 and 1973, according to you, are cowards and unfit for political office.
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1LT George Walsh
You are correct, no legal issue today with his medical deferment. But isn't there an issue of character in that the condition claimed, bone spurs, never prevented him from physical activity such as playing tennis?
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1LT George Walsh
Attention has also been paid to independent Senator Bernie Sanders's failure to serve. In an article in The Atlantic, it was reported that, after graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964, and moving back to New York City, the future candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination applied for conscientious objector status – even though as Sanders acknowledged to the reporter, he was not religious.[164] (Sanders was opposed to the Vietnam War.[165] At the time, however, CO status was granted entirely on the basis of religious opposition to all war.[164]) Sanders's CO status was denied. Nevertheless, a "lengthy series of hearings, an FBI investigation and numerous postponements and delays" took him to age 26 at which point he was no longer eligible for the draft.[164] In a 2015 book critical of Sanders, journalist Harry Jaffe revisited that portion of the Atlantic article, emphasizing that by the time Sanders's "numerous hearings" had run their course he was "too old to be drafted".”
Joe Biden, a former U.S. vice president and senator who vied for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020, as well as earlier in his career, was excused from military service in 1968 because of asthma as a teenager.[170][171] An Associated Press (AP) story, run in the conservative newspaper The Washington Times, states: "In Promises to Keep, a memoir that was published [in 2007] … , Mr. Biden never mentions his asthma, recounting an active childhood, work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school". [170] A shorter version of the AP story ran in Newsday, a New York newspaper.”
Attention has also been paid to independent Senator Bernie Sanders's failure to serve. In an article in The Atlantic, it was reported that, after graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964, and moving back to New York City, the future candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination applied for conscientious objector status – even though as Sanders acknowledged to the reporter, he was not religious.[164] (Sanders was opposed to the Vietnam War.[165] At the time, however, CO status was granted entirely on the basis of religious opposition to all war.[164]) Sanders's CO status was denied. Nevertheless, a "lengthy series of hearings, an FBI investigation and numerous postponements and delays" took him to age 26 at which point he was no longer eligible for the draft.[164] In a 2015 book critical of Sanders, journalist Harry Jaffe revisited that portion of the Atlantic article, emphasizing that by the time Sanders's "numerous hearings" had run their course he was "too old to be drafted".”
Joe Biden, a former U.S. vice president and senator who vied for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020, as well as earlier in his career, was excused from military service in 1968 because of asthma as a teenager.[170][171] An Associated Press (AP) story, run in the conservative newspaper The Washington Times, states: "In Promises to Keep, a memoir that was published [in 2007] … , Mr. Biden never mentions his asthma, recounting an active childhood, work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school". [170] A shorter version of the AP story ran in Newsday, a New York newspaper.”
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If he submitted a request and it got accepted, I dont see the issue.... His talent was obviously needed in school not the jungle.
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CPL John Sutor
What talent would that be ?
How to have daddy's Dr come up with some fake ass xray of heel spurs .
No Commander in Chief.
He couldn't command a troop of Cub Scouts.
How to have daddy's Dr come up with some fake ass xray of heel spurs .
No Commander in Chief.
He couldn't command a troop of Cub Scouts.
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CPL John Sutor
LTC (Join to see) They weren't called ,he was big difference. He has Bull Shitted his way though life .
No Commander in Chief.
Draft Dodging punk
No Commander in Chief.
Draft Dodging punk
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