Draft deferments, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton

Draft deferments were probably not fair, but they were legal and very, very common, especially during the Vietnam when my husband was draft age. The government believed it had a stake in education, marriage and fatherhood. My husband had at least 3 student deferments, then 1 for being a father, and then later, married men were deferred by JFK, so he had that, too. And of course, the biggest deferments were age and sex. Both of my grandfathers, one was 27 and the other 45,  had to sign up for the draft for WWI—the government was getting desperate.  Even in WWI there was talk of drafting women, but it never happened. Haters are gonna hate. Standards for Democrats are always different. Always.

From a friend of mine on Facebook:

“Before the virus, I wrote an article that went viral about the truth behind Donald Trump's draft deferments. To sum it up, Trump went to the draft board on two different occasions and took the physical. On three of the draft notices he met the criteria for receiving a student deferment. He was in college and there was no need to draft students because the war in Vietnam was not WWII.

So, the second time he took the physical he received a 4F status. It does not say why on the card, it just says that he is disqualified. Nowhere does it say "bone spurs" and where that information came from was when a reporter asked Trump why did he get disqualified for service, and he said that he didn't know, he thought it was bone spurs.

Now, for those who hate everything about Trump without any real reason, they will call Trump a "draft dodger", which is kind of like charging someone you invited into your house, and fed them dinner, with breaking and entering. Trump didn't "dodge" something that he showed up and took the physical.

The other thing is that the Trump haters like to say that Trump was an athletic guy, and a star athlete, and so he faked bone spurs. However, Trump was totally devoted to his studies. He did not go to parties; he did not drink alcohol and he didn’t even go to the football games.

But that does not stop the Democrats and the left from calling him "Captain Bone spurs" and calling him a draft dodger every chance they get.

OK, but what about Biden?

Biden went through college at the same time, and he also did not go to Vietnam. So, why have there been no comments on Biden’s draft deferments? Trump received four draft deferments. Three were for being in college and the fourth one was for not meeting the physical standards to be in the US military. So basically, Trump was like 75% of the male population then, and 75% of the entire population now.

Bill Clinton is one that actually dodged the draft by going to England during the war, but no one ever mentions him, since he cannot run for president anymore.

So, what about Biden?

Biden had five draft deferments. One more than Trump. Four of the five were for him being in college, but the last one gave Biden a 1Y classification, which means he was not physically fit to be in the military. This would be changed to 4F when the draft rules were changed in 1971. So, he was exactly like Donald Trump.

Now Trump thinks his physical ailment was bone spurs. But what about Biden?

Biden’s physical ailment was for asthma.

Now, Trump did not do any sports or anything physical. Who knows, it may have been due to bone spurs, but Biden excelled at sports. While in High School Biden played on the football team. During the summer he worked as a lifeguard, where he told the story of how he faced down a knife wielding gang member by the name of Corn Pop, by wrapping a chain around his arm. Biden later lied about playing for the University of Delaware football team, but he was trying to show how physically fit and tough he was when he bragged about these things.

Biden never mentions asthma in his book “Promises to Keep”, and continues to regale about how tough he was and how physically fit the young Joe Biden was. So, if that is true, then why did he fail a draft physical?

Senator Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat who also served in Iraq, has called Donald Trump a coward and said his deferment was for the “yellow streak down his back”. Has Senator Duckworth ever said anything at all about Joe Biden, or his draft deferments?

Mayor Pete Buttigieg told ABC’s “This Week” that ““You have somebody who thinks it’s all right to have somebody go in his place into a deadly war and is willing to pretend to be disabled to do it. That is an assault on the honor of this country.” So, does presidential wannabe Buttigieg consider Biden’s deferments an “assault on the honor of this country?”

No, just like the Democrats keeping totally silent about Joe Biden’s sexual assault accusations, while they went out of their way to scream about the really flimsy allegations of Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, I figure no Democrat will make any comments about Joe Biden’s record.

Oh, and for all of those on Facebook who constantly use the term “Draft Dodger in Chief” or call Trump “Captain Bone spurs”, ask them if they are now going to call Biden “Captain Asthma” and consider him a draft dodger.”

Women and the draft

Women may soon be required to register for the military draft. What sense does that make? We haven't had a draft for decades, but this signals the reinstatement. Small countries need women in the military; ours doesn't. Our military right now is below pre-WWII levels, and we have a president who can't or won't lead and politicizes tragedies if they involve a favored group.

So what's up? Our military probably also isn't ready to accept draftees. Today's military of volunteers, both men and women, is the best in the world. Don't make the military branches another social service agency for creating "equality."

And no, I don't think women should be in combat, either.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/us/politics/congress-women-military-draft.html?_r=0

 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/15/482168066/in-defense-bill-senate-approves-plan-for-women-to-register-for-draft

Does Obama include himself in the draft proposal?

"But it’s also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months. And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it’s important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some."
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It's bad enough that the military has been forced to be a laboratory test tube for gender equality. Apparently he forgets that these young people have chosen to enlist, since we have an all volunteer, outstanding military. Young people in metropolitan areas have the same opportunity. And has he ever really looked at the data? Is he aware that rural schools have higher graduation rates than the city schools of Detroit or Cleveland or Columbus, and our military requires people of higher achievement? There are probably 25 year olds in the military who have more "leadership/executive" experience than he does. Does he know that the young people in the military are better educated and wealthier than a comparable group of young people in the civilian population? Or is he just again showing his elitist, liberal, smug opinion of people who choose to serve in the military, combined with his "clinging to guns and religion" bias toward fly-over country Americans.

. . . each year shows advancement, not decline, in measurable qualities of new enlistees. For example, it is commonly claimed that the military relies on recruits from poorer neighborhoods because the wealthy will not risk death in war. Our review of Pen­tagon enlistee data shows that the only group that is lowering its participation in the military is the poor. The percentage of recruits from the poorest American neighborhoods (with one-fifth of the U.S. population) declined from 18 percent in 1999 to 14.6 percent in 2003, 14.1 percent in 2004, and 13.7 percent in 2005.

. . . in the most recent edition of Population Representation in the Military Services, the Department of Defense reported that the mean reading level of 2004 recruits is a full grade level higher than that of the comparable youth population.[8] Fewer than 2 percent of wartime recruits have no high school creden­tials. Table 2 shows the breakdown for the educational attainment of the war­time recruit cohorts. The national high school graduation rate taken from the Census 2004 ACS is 79.8 percent." Link "Who are the recruits?"