Posted on 09/08/2015 4:21:15 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Donald Trump did not serve in the military, but according to a report, the Republican presidential candidate and multibillionaire business tycoon said in a forthcoming book that he still "always felt that I was in the military" because he attended a military boarding school and "dealt with those people."
According to an upcoming biography and interview excerpts shared with The New York Times, Trump said that his five years at the New York Military Academy provided him with "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military."
“After the Vietnam War, all those military academies lost ground because people really disrespected the military,” Trump told the author in an excerpt shared with the Times. “They weren’t sending their kids to military school. It was a whole different thing, but in those days — 1964 I graduated — that was a very good thing or tough thing, and it was a real way of life at military academy.”
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No matter how many unflattering stories are put out to stop Trump, he just keep on rolling over the opposition.
He probably did have more of what most of us recognize as military experience than anyone in the last twenty years.
Yeah going to a posh private school is so much more “military”.
The prese sure isn’t hurting him is it.
I just don’t like this guy.
He’s candid and that doesn’t hurt him.
One more of the many statements that make this trivializing former reality show host - who thinks everything is all about him - an embarrassment to the political system of the U.S.
Trump likes the military - one more reason for the bleeding-heart media to hate him.
Surprised Hillary and her Dem stooges haven’t dropped the word “warmonger” yet.
To a great extent, I believe him.
Donald Trump has a brash ,showy and creative nature.
This boarding school may have helped him to develop the discipline to see projects through to their completion.
As a builder, there are uncompromising rules and guidelines that must be followed. So for the sake of making money,full compliance becomes a learned behavior.
Smear taken out of context, but then I never trust Politico.
When I went to jump school in 1980 we wore boots. All day. When I ran military sick call for 15 years ending in 2005 even I couldn’t believe it. 280 lb E5s coming on AD from Guard Units. A profusion of single mothers with more days on sick call than morning formation. When I started doing sick call in 1990 we were doing retirement physicals on a bunch of 06s who had 25 plus years. Cold Warriors. Most had medical files that were a couple pages. Nothing but physicals. When I left I had numerous files of female E3s, single mothers, whose files were in three volumes. They would take up most of a box of a ream of paper. Accumulated in six months, some of them. The military has changed.
An interesting and depressing comparison.
He also slept in an Holiday Inn last night. He's practically Patton.
driftdiver wrote:
“Yeah going to a posh private school is so much more “military”.”
In 1964, milirary academies were not posh, and still had criteria to meet.
Virginia Military Institute was not a ‘posh’ private school, and has the distinction to actually put upon the federal government military of the 1860’s quite a hurt.
I am inclined to think by your comment, you just might be a child born after The Fall of the Berlin Wall, but I’ll give you a pass, for the present.
He didn’t say he was “in the military”, he said that he “felt like he was in the military”. I don’t know how posh those Military Academies were pre-1970. Many of them were prep schools for the real Military Academies (e.g., West Point), so they were probably pretty very rigorous—maybe even spartan. You probably had a very similar culture and protocols to what students see at West Point.
Given this, I don’t find his statement outrageous or offensive at all, especially since he spent 5 years there. Unlike people like Kerry, he didn’t turn around and trash the military as a result of his experience.
The man loves the military. He brags of awards he receives involving them. You get Hillary you’re not going to get someone who loves, venerates or respects the military. She’ll have the generals carrying her luggage.
“I never served in the military, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
I could only imagine the reaction if a (current) Democrat draft dodger made the same comment as Trump.
You do understand that there is such a thing as a “military academy”, correct?
It’s not just a “posh private school”. LOL.
And they actually prepare people for high places in the military.
It’s really interesting news about Trump, as that type of education really does prepare you for active duty in a leadership role.
I’ll quote JimRob: Go Trump GO!
Spot on.
Going on Sick Call used to be the walk of shame, especially for officers. If you were sick as an officer, you sucked it up or if you were in really bad shape, you went to the ER after duty hours or the CO just sent you home. Sick Call was for junior enlisted and were screened by the 1SG before going on Sick Call.
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