I'm not going to trade service records with you, but suffice to say my family has served in WWI and WWII, wounded & decorated, as well as in every war back to the French & Indian. I respect anybody whose relatives have fought for their country. My dad spent some time serving with the 79th Cameron Highlanders, and he had the greatest respect for their fighting qualities and character as men.
That being said, I believe you are mistaken in your assessment of Jimmy Carter. I have nothing against peanut farmers (large contributors to our state's economy) but they ought to farm peanuts, not meddle in affairs of state for which they are unqualified.
Other than a short stint in the Navy and as a state senator (a job that almost anyone can do, believe me), Carter's only qualification when he got to the Gold Dome in Georgia was having worked in his daddy's peanut and cotton business. Making a crop in South Georgia does take a certain amount of skill, but it's not a job that qualifies one for being governor, let alone president. He had the same micro-managing, meddling, self-righteous sort of qualities ad governor that he later demonstrated as president (he used to wander around the Capitol building turning the thermostats down. It drove the GBA (maintenance) people crazy, because his ad hoc adjustments threw the balancing equipment out of whack. More or less like his foreign policy foolishness.)