Dan Rather is Not an Ex-Marine

Personal knowledge/opinion | September 20, 2003 | Donald J. Taylor

[FortWorthPatriot]

Fuggeddaboutit...

[SJackson]

I don't know I'd necessarily accuse him of bedwetting, but the circumstances are odd.

In 1970 at PI I do remember a few recruits being discharged for "preexisting" conditions, undisclosed psychological problems requiring medication and drug use as I recall. But this happened in the first week of so of training, and the discharge process was pretty quick, a week or so. I can’t imagine why undisclosed rheumatic fever would cause problems only after nearly three months, near or at the end of basic.

Though I don’t recall bedwetting, I do remember a few recruits who would claim to be homosexuals or drug users. If the claim was false, I believe the discharge was general, and that process took longer, since they were usually put through the motivational platoon for awhile. Three months is an odd period of time for a medical problem not incurred in training.

[ansel12]

You must remember that, at that time, the Marine Corps was all volunteer and it was into the U.S. Army that a draftee was inducted.

Actually the Marines drafted during the Korean war, just as they had in WWII.

[lonestar]

In the late ‘60s Rather was having an affair with a friend of two sisters who lived next door to me in Houston.

[M Kehoe]

I just had to bump this again...

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