Very true. However, if you took the time to read the article I cited, Trump states his bone spurs were "temporary" and "minor".
I have bone spurs and I know the condition as well as anybody. I know I could have had surgery to remove the bone spurs but doctors do not recommend surgery since the bone spur inflammation is very temporary and surgery is not worth it. I know they do not incapacitate a person for 4 years.
I stand by my statement: Trump did everything within his power to avoid military service. He did not want to serve his country in the military and he was successful in fulfilling that goal.
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
no one wanted to go to Vietnam. certainly not Trump. but he had plenty of company in the list of famous people who did whatever they could to avoid service. GW Bushie Jr joined the Air National Guard. say all you want about strings being pulled by GHW Bushie to get him in the Air National Guard, but he was in the service, unlike Slick Willie Blythe who played the ROTC to avoid service. then there are the rock stars .. polar opposites Teddo Nugent and Brucie Springsteen. one is a flaming libtard the other a staunch conservative. both played the same game to avoid being drafted, didn't wash and other sundry things before showing up to their physicals. was it any less unpatriotic for Teddo vs. Brucie?
several of my older cousins avoided Vietnam too. well avoided being in the Army or Marines at least. one joined the Army National Guard, one joined the Air Force and one joined the Navy. the two that joined the Air Force and Navy did go to Vietnam .. just not as a solider. one was stationed at an Air Base in Laos that didn't exist .. officially. they called it .. "The Base with no name". the other was on one of the carriers that ran flight ops to support ground troops.
my dad was called up to join the Army during Korea. he was originally called in 1950 and almost certainly would have ended up in a fox hole somewhere. he took two academic deferments to stay in college until 1952 when he graduated, then he was called up again. by then the troop count was pretty much set and he was going to sit in Ft. Benning for two years.
he found that a rather dull and boring prospect and a waste of two years when he'd rather be in Law school as he planned. if he had applied for overseas duty he'd immediately be sent to Korea. he had struck up a friendship with another guy in a similar situation, also a college grad who had taken academic deferments who was a logistics clerk. he told my dad that if he applied for oversea he'd be sent to Korea because he had a "red tag" on his file. that means you go straight to Korea. so they conspired to game the system. just after basic training, the clerk pulled his red tag and threw it in the trash can. that very day my Dad applied to go to West Germany. by the end of the day he was on a transport headed to Europe. the clerk told him that if the Army figured it out after about 72 hours then they wouldn't bother recalling him, too much trouble. so by the time he reported in at Wiesbaden West Germany he was home free.
he had a reason to go to West Germany, actually. we're German. Kraut-Micks actually, in that order. German-Irish. my last name is a German word. i'll keep that to myself thanks. so he wanted to be stationed in the motherland as it were. and learned to speak pretty fair German while he was there. another piece of luck came about due to him being a not just a college grad, but second in his class at UofL and a national merit finalist. a bird Colonel was reviewing records for a new aid and picked my dad. so he got to travel all over Europe and the Middle East as the attache of a bird Colonel. as Colonels can do, he was immediately promoted from buck private to corporal.
in the infinite military wisdom of the Army, they originally made my Dad an advanced infantry artillery spotter. you aren't on the front lines .. you are in
front of the front lines. this despite the fact that in addition to radios they used signal flags as well and he's partially color blind. go figure. he has trouble with dark colors. can't tell blue from black or dark browns. the rest oft the color spectrum he saw just fine.