Riding on dad’s coattails means “jack shit” Jane Fonda’s father played an officer in war movies.You asked. I answered.
He asked about YOUR military service, not your father’s.
“World War II service
Fonda played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (1941), and was acclaimed for his role in The Ox-Bow Incident. The following year he played opposite Gene Tierney in the comedy Rings on Her Fingers (1942), but he then enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, “I don’t want to be in a fake war in a studio.”[7]
Previously, he and Stewart had helped raise funds for the defense of Britain from the Nazis.[8] Fonda served for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee. He was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific and won a Presidential Citation and the Bronze Star.[9][10]”