I thought most booger-eating social rejects try to write fantasy books, not join the Army.
I will rise in defense of King.
People are allowed to be wrong. He almost certainly doesn’t understand that the military academies are more difficult to get into than Harvard, both academically and in the broader sense.
King is a philanthropist. This is VERY rare among hard core liberals. He gives money away often and in large magnitude, and he generally does so to non political charities. He is not enormously rich because of this generosity — and it’s not all pouring money down 3rd world ratholes. He built a baseball stadium for his local high school.
Sending him examples of military PhD’s is a wiser response than political attack. He’s a rational man and he’s shares another quality with conservatives that you don’t often find in liberals — he’s a very hard worker.