Military Service & POTUS · 3:31pm Apr 27th, 2023
WW2v& earlier, EVERY major US war produced at least 1 POTUS.
War of 1812 Andrew Jackson
WW1 Harry Truman
Since WW2, nothing.
Since George HW Bush, the closest would be W.
He was on active duty 1968-1974 as an aviator in the Texas National Guard.
He never got closer to combat than Texas plus shorted his required service by about 6 months. His family was politically connected enough that he never got in trouble for this.
Clinton got student deferments + a high draft number. Biden, basically the same.
Obama was too young. Born in 1961, he was 12 when the USA pulled out of Vietnam.
Trump got a student deferment plus a medical waiver for bone spurs in a foot.
1) Bone spurs CAN correct themselves even without treatment. A medical exam now wouldn't necessarily show if he had bone spurs 50+ years ago.
2) Trump is a habitual liar who has contradicted himself on "which foot had spurs?".
3) Trump's doctor owed his landlord (Trump's father) money. There is no record this money was ever repaid. Both their tax records are sealed, so this proves nothing.
4) Trump's then doctor is dead. His doctor's daughter claims (without evidence) that her father faked it.
5) The X-rays (if any) are gone. There is no legal requirement they be kept & it is common to destroy them after awhile (too expensive to store them indefinitely).
It's too soon to say, but Ron DeSantis (Gen X) did serve as a legal advisor to a Navy Seal team in Iraq. If elected, he would be the first POTUS in almost 50 years to serve in a war zone.
