What do the Boy Scouts have to do with this question? Many men from Ted, Barry, Marco, and Scott’s cohort didn’t see the military as helping their upward advancement and sans a draft, didn’t have to enlist. It’s really as simple as that.
How did Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Joe Biden and other Vietnam-era candidates avoid service? And is it really fair that we don’t examine the female candidates on this? Women have served since at least the early part of our involvement in World War II and nurses even before that. The late Bea Arthur (”Maude” & “Golden Girls”) was a woman Marine during the second war.
Which branch did Obama serve in, the 101st Ramadan Brigade?
I believe we have a lot of trolls now scraping the bottom of the barrel in search of some footing. Military service is the current not-so-new tactic.
Boy Scouts generally aren’t old enough to serve in the US military.