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To: MNJohnnie
While our greatest President Reagan never served in the US Military.

Why do you keep repeating that lie?

Here's the facts, get educated:

After completing fourteen home-study Army Extension Courses, Reagan enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve[18] on April 29, 1937, as a private assigned to Troop B, 322nd Cavalry at Des Moines, Iowa.[19] He was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the Cavalry on May 25, 1937, and on June 18 was assigned to the 323rd Cavalry.[20]

Reagan was ordered to active duty for the first time on April 18, 1942. Due to his nearsightedness, he was classified for limited service only, which excluded him from serving overseas.[21] His first assignment was at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation at Fort Mason, California, as a liaison officer of the Port and Transportation Office.[22] Upon the request of the Army Air Force (AAF), he applied for a transfer from the Cavalry to the AAF on May 15 1942, and was assigned to AAF Public Relations and subsequently to the 1st Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California.[22] On January 14, 1943 he was promoted to First Lieutenant and was sent to the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is The Army at Burbank, California.[22] He returned to the 1st Motion Picture Unit after completing this duty and was promoted to Captain on July 22, 1943.[19]

In January 1944, Captain Reagan was ordered to temporary duty in New York City to participate in the opening of the sixth War Loan Drive. He was assigned to the 18th AAF Base Unit, Culver City, California on November 14, 1944, where he remained until the end of the World War II.[19] He was recommended for promotion to Major on February 2, 1945, but this recommendation was disapproved on July 17 of that year.[23] He returned to Fort MacArthur, California, where he was separated from active duty on December 9 1945.[23] By the end of the war, his units had produced some 400 training films for the AAF.[19]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Military_service

13 posted on 02/03/2008 6:01:39 AM PST by Rush4U (unnamed source)
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To: Rush4U

“As we stood at one such site, Washington Post correspondent Peter Braestrup asked an American TV cameraman, ‘Why don’t you film this?’ He answered, ‘I am not here to spread anti-communist propaganda’.”

That’s one of the many things about Tet that pisses me off. It should have been proof of what kind of enemy we were fighting and shut up the “The VC are just fighting to protect their homeland” freaks. We had a golden oppurtunity to justify our presence over there and a bunch of big-headed media morons screwed it up.


14 posted on 02/03/2008 6:11:43 AM PST by RWB Patriot
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