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Look, I got exempted from ALL of my reserve duty following active duty simply because I asked to be exempted, and a guy named Dan Quayle wanted that billet in the National Guard (that I had been offered by Department of Defense).

Kerry got out a bit after I did, but at that time Richard Nixon had had a chance to get things in order and it was clear that folks who'd completed their active duty obligations probably didn't need to be kept on a short leash. Besides, some of them, like me for example, had a really, really, really bad attitude toward the draftdodgers then bulging the ranks of the Reserves and the National Guard and probably would treat those people like the $hit they were!

That would not be conducive to good order, eh?!

I ditched my active reserve too, after my active duty service during the vietnam war. I got orders to report to a reserve training something or other and I wrote to the officer that signed the orders and told him I couldn't come becasue I was going to college and I wouldn't come even if I wasn't because I'd had enough.

Never heard anything about it. Four years later I got my honorable discharge in the mail.

I suppose someone could or would say this makes me a deserter or AWOL or something like that, but they wouldn't dare say it to my face.