I know that, it is more the principal of what Trump did that was so bad. It was another reason I don’t like McCain no more than I liked RINO Romney.
You can’t go through 4 years of Military School and the day you run out your student deferments suddenly have foot trouble, that got you classified as 4 F, and that stupid low draft number was not an issue. It would have shown up in school records. Especially when under aged kids signed up and went for 4 years. My ex did his 4, 2 tours in Nam. Current hubby was already in Navy before Nam, but he was pulling Friendly’s out of Nam on the USS Midway when they pulled the AMB out. And off the Coast of Cuba during the Missile Crisis. Career 20 years, Ret. SCPO. We have had men in service since WW2 through the current generation in our family. Including my dad who fought 5 major battles Airborne, under Gen. MacArthur including the Retaking of the “ROCK”.
Trump took ROTC in High School in NY. Landing a Navy vessel at a dock in DaNang is not same same as serving a year at a time there or flying a jet off a carrier and bombing the north through SAMS. The same is true of pilots out of Thailand who flew up north and others supported friends of mine on the ground in Laos.Trump was in college for 4 years and that =’S 1S or 2S deferments, 1S is a shorter term student deferment then 2S. In 64-66 I and many of my friends went in the service. I could have easily gone to Germany and never served a day in Vietnam as my father got a number of Dr’s sons sent to Germany or Korea. Donald Trump could have easily have been assigned to a NY NG unit and never left the USA with his father’s pull. Trump was not a draft dodger. He did it legally and his lottery number was 356.
When was your husband on the USS Midway during the during the Viet Nam war, and more interesting to me is what Carrier was he on during the Cuban missle crisis?