[Beckwith]

Well, post #37 seems to provide your answer:

TED NUGENT RESPONDS
OP-ED COLUMN WAS VICIOUS ATTACK ON MY CHARACTER
THE SEATTLE TIMES
March 24, 1991

“My hunting message is even simpler. I deeply respect God’s creations, and value his design and my participation in it. The only thing true in Bowman’s attack is that I have no use for anybody who treats animals as equal citizens of the planet. I eat animals, but never people. This is the main thrust of Bowman and his cultist animal clan. Animals as citizens? That is preposterous, and what separates moral fibre from hypocrisy.

Reciting a fictitious story from the hippies at Rolling Stone about how I got out of the draft is another example. I had a 1-Y student deferment, for the record.”

[McGruff]

I think some are making a mountain out of a mole hill here. I don't think he meant to say he's a Marine but Marines have showed him what he should aspire to be like.

Sometime when I say something (or post it) it doesn't come out like I meant it. Ever happen to you?

I do know Uncle Ted's a good man. And nobody should misrepresent themselves as a Marine. I seriously doubt Ted would intentionally.

[Non-Sequitur]

Reciting a fictitious story from the hippies at Rolling Stone about how I got out of the draft is another example. I had a 1-Y student deferment, for the record.”

Which brings up two questions. One, why didn't he have a 2-S, which was the student deferement? 1-Y basically said the government was taking a pass on you, but you might be called up is things really got desperate. Two, how could he be a student when he was touring with the Amboy Dukes? By his own account he was doing 300 shows a year between 1967 and 1973. Kind of hard to do homework with all that traveling.