Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the Army and George W. Bush was in the Air Force as was Perry, if you assume he gets elected. If it were true, however, why would that matter? Is there something wrong with serving in the Navy?
Johnson was born, raised and elected to the House, Senate, VP and President from Texas. He was in the Navy Reserve during WWII.
Then there was the migrant George H W Bush who served as a Navy Aviator during WWII, managed to survive getting shot down as the youngest Navy pilot in history (right?) and went on to become a Texas Congressman, then Vice President and President.
I think you confused him with Henry Cabot Lodge or something.
Then, finally there's George Bush who did served in the Texas Air National Guard as a pilot.
The differences here are where these men considered themselves to be home, and was there a war on and were then ever in a war zone. Johnson kinda' got there. George HW did get there. George was not sent. Ike lived at the front, and as Supreme Allied Commander I suppose he was certainly a Navy Commanding Officer, even if never technically a Navy swabbie, and, like others born in Texas but who moved away, he still didn't count it as home, nor was he ever elected to office from there.
You're correct that Perry was in the Air Force ~ and landed on concrete runways successfully numerous times. Which is good ~ can't say that's bad ~ a point I have been making the last couple of days regarding folks who are trained to deal with airplanes ~ it is good to land, and not hurt people.
Always good. Something to be strived for Fur Shur.
Still, 3 out of 4 ~ Navy, or Navy related, irrespective of how tenuous the Texas connection?