I'm sure Reagan was a captain in WW II assigned state side, and a Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves. Kerry is wrong again.
What I heard this weekend was that Reagan volunteered, but his eyesight was too bad to be sent into combat.
Since I began seeing the tributes to Reagan, I was wondering when the issue of CIC's who never saw combat came to light.
If Kerry wants to jump on the bandwagon for criticizing former presidents for their military service, then he should look no further than LBJ. Not only did Johnson find a way to serve at home without having to see combat, he did so as publicly as possible, for the greatest political gain.
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/rr.htm
just a snippet:
"Several years after graduating from college and while employed as a sports announcer by a radio station in Iowa, Ronald Reagan began taking home-study U.S. Army Extension Courses. He enrolled in the program on Mar. 18, 1935 and by Dec. 1936, had completed 14 courses.
He then joined the Army's Enlisted Reserve Corps at Des Moines, Iowa on April 29, 1937 as a private in Troop B, 322d Cavalry. On May 25, 1937 he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Cavalry and on June 18, 1937, he accepted his officer's commission...."
I'm also pretty sure that Lincoln did serve in the Black Hawk Wars in Illinois, but never saw combat.
Kerry sure is wrong a lot.