and Bill Clinton was alive during Viet Nam era and HE did not serve...
maybe a good idea that to be commander-in-chief you must have served in the Military??
“maybe a good idea that to be commander-in-chief you must have served in the Military??”
Maybe, since it can give you executive and leadership experience and teach you about the thing you’re potentially going to be Commander in chief of. But it’s not requisite, since we ahve a long tradition of civilian control of the military. Also, it the military is a monster, and some of the jobs aren’t anything different fundamentally from driving a forklift in the local factory or if you’re the son of a politician sitting for photo-ops and following big wigs around looking like you’re important.