Posted on 07/18/2015 11:37:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
2-S status was free when I got mine, as was my 2-H later.
Didn't know you could buy one.
How many politicians served in the military? I bet the percentage today is quite low.
I am a strong Cruz supporter as well but I have to take exception to your choice as veep. The vice president has to support the presidents agenda and I can't see Trump being a loyal soldier. Cruz could never count on his support. And I don't see Trump willingly taking second place to anyone.
I can’t wait until Obama milks this for all its worth when he attends the VFW Convention. Bank on it.
Obama won't have to. The other Republicans will - Perry is already calling Trump unqualified to be commander-in-chief - and the media will run with it.
As an aside, Two of my Nephews. Air Force and Marine served in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are all very proud of them.
My dad was army and married my mom when he was at Fort Leonard Wood. Most of my uncles were in the army and a couple of cousins have served tours. I have a lot of respect for people willing to serve. Because of them I have the freedom to shoot off my mouth on forums like this.
Thanks just trying to do the math and had no idea how old the ole bag was and trying to figure out if still drafting etc.
“Millions sought to avoid the draft back then.Trump’s situation is no different.”
Millions received their draft notices and reported as ordered. Over 50,000 gave their last full measure; hundreds of thousands were maimed or seriously wounded. The lucky ones who returned unscathed were spat upon by the Bill Clintons and Donald Trumps of the that era, who had pulled strings to obtain deferments, sending some other less fortunate lads to take their places.
And some want to send such scum to sit in the CofC’s chair..
Others went into the service without attempting to avoid the draft because they respected their country and understood their duty. I went in before the war really heated up and ended up serving in CONUS the entire two years but already contemporaries were scurrying to get medical deferments, family deferments (early on), join the National Guard, and later going to Canada. For many, chance played a major role and I can’t really criticism educational deferments. But it does limit ones standing to call someone like McCain essentially a coward for being caught.
Thanks just trying to do the math and had no idea how old the ole bag was and trying to figure out if still drafting etc. She lies so much just checking to see if this was another one. I understand she would not have been drafted, just have to verify most of what these people say and do, and this one just sets some bells off for me.
Sorry but I think anyone will to put his life on his line by serving in the military is a hero. Anyone who fights for his country in a war is a hero. Anyone who is captured while engaged in combat is a hero. The four Marines and the sailor from Thursday are heroes. They are people who are prepared to lay down their lives at any given moment to protect my freedom and your freedom. That makes them heroes in my book and I'm sorry you don't feel the same way. And because they serve and I didn't then I think that makes me unqualified to criticize their service to this country in any way. And I'm sorry Trump is too much of an arrogant ass to feel the same.
and anyone that hides behind hero status and uses that to then attack conservatives that only want to protect the greatest nation on earth is a huge loser.
You have to be a citizen of the US to get drafted.
I still feel dirty voting for McCain but i will never vote for Trump. I will write in a candidate
The oppo is bringing this up??? He did nothing illegal or immoral.
Would your response be the same if we had the same info on bammy?
2nd, he is on our team...
He is posting things that need posting on Trump...after the McCain comments, this could stick. We will see.
He’s a Trump detractor for the sake of hating Trump. I’ve seen his posts. He’s not on anyone’s team.
I thought he was on the Cruz side...
Obama is the original Teflon coated turd.Nothing sticks to him anyway.
But to answer your question,I just don’t know how I’d respond.If the deferments were legal,I don’t blame anyone for trying to not be thrown into the meatgrinder.
No, you were misinformed or something.
He was smart enough to realize that Vietnam was just a place to make cannon fodder. There has not been a decent war that had real objectives since WWII. Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, the several Middle East “wars,” were all a disgrace because they were all fought by politicians and not warriors. The blood of our young )and a huge chunk of our money) are on the hands of the politicians since the 1950’s.
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