Ron Paul served a couple of years on active duty, a couple in the Air National Guard. He was a flight surgeon. For anyone that doesn’t know what a flight surgeon is I will tell you. It’s a medical doctor that gives pilots their physicals and makes sure they are ready to fly an airplane.
Other than that they drink alot of coffee and play alot golf.
Ron Paul never served overseas, had a desk job, and was never in harm’s way.
His attack on Newt Gingrich was pathetic. If he had also let Romney have it for not serving in the military, maybe I wouldn’t be as hard on the old man as I am. Romney was worse than Gingrich. Having connections in the Morman Church got his weasel his deferment. For three long years Americans, less privileged than Mitt Romney, fought and died in Vietnam, while he was overseas pretending to be a “morman minister”, which is a joke. It burns me up that Ron Paul has became Romney’s biggest cheerleader and never says a disparaging word about him. Ron Paul was also never drafted in the Air Force. The Air Force has never had a draft. He was also never drafted into the Army. Now he might have thought he was going to get drafted in the Army and joined the Air Force. Technically, that would make Ron Paul a draft-dodger himself. He served from 63-65 in the Regular Air Force, then when Vietnam was building up, he joined the very safe Air Force National Guard. He knew he would never have to serve in Vietnam. I don’t like hypocrites and Paul is a hypocrite. An Audie Murphy he aint!
Well said FRiend and BRAVO.
Now if Ron Paul had volunteered to GO to Vietnam to provide his surgical skills for our wounded troops, that would be a different situation.
Your description however, more than suffices.
Thanks.
I’ll apologize here in advance before a lot of people respond to correct me - guess I was wrong about the military paying for his medical school. I’d recently read that, but from what I’m seeing here, that wasn’t the case.