[CholeraJoe]

Your list omitted Reagan - Army (Cavalry) then transferred to the Army Air Corps.

Mea culpa. See 3024.

Perhaps military service or government service in some way as a prerequisite to exercising the vote would result in a better informed electorate. Read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers."

[Ophiucus]

Perhaps military service or government service in some way as a prerequisite to exercising the vote would result in a better informed electorate. Read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers."

Read it - and all of Heinlein's books. Reread DuBois' lecture on how that system came about. It was not successful for a better informed electorate.