Nully, do you care to respond to this post?
Not particularly.
It says nothing about whether the retired colonel is a natural born citizen.
Since the term natural born citizen lacks a clear legal definition, native born and natural born may or may not be the same for the purposes of holding the Office of the President.
In a just world children born of Americans on American government business would be eligible to hold the Office of the President regardless of any accident of birth outside the physical boundaries of the country.
This isn't a world ruled by justice, it's barely a world ruled by law.