Deferments Helped Trump Dodge Vietnam
APRIL 28--Despite Donald Trump’s claim this week that he avoided serving in the Vietnam War solely due to a high draft number, Selective Service records show that the purported presidential aspirant actually received a series of student deferments while in college and then topped those off with a medical deferment after graduation that helped spare him from fighting for his country,
” received a series of student deferments while in college”
So did I, as did the other young men at Kent State. It was extremely common! Eventually took the physical, and was 1Y, I think it was called? Heart murmur.
Oh yeah, those nasty bone spurs in his foot that he never had removed, that magically went away.
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My next door neighbor got deferred for having a psoraisis outbreak on his forearm.
Some got them for claiming that they had frequent headaches.