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Says it all. Harry Truman is prolly spinning in his grave.

Nobody can blow like Bill Clinton.

Nice photo of Hadji. Where’s the photo of Race Bannon?

Bump.

Now you know the liberals will say that having Reagan and G.W.Bush in uniform is not fair because they didn’t serve overseas. Me personally I’m for them, at least they didn’t protest the U.S. overseas or apologize to the world for America saving their asses like Clownton or Zero!

Bill Clinton and Barry Obama couldn't hold even Jimmy Carter's jock strap.

Different man from a different time. Would have probably made admiral if his father hadn't died and he had to return to Georgia to run the peanut farm and become a very poor politician.

Jimmy Carter was supposed to be the engineering officer on the 2nd SSN the Seawolf which was also the only American SSN completed with a liquid metal (sodium) cooled reactor.

His experience at the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chalk River makes rather harrowing reading:

It was a very exciting time for me when the Chalk River plant melted down,” Jimmy Carter, now 83, said in a recent interview in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.

“I was one of the few people in the world who had clearance to go into a nuclear power plant.”

On Dec. 12, 1952, the NRX reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories suffered a partial meltdown. There was an explosion and millions of litres of radioactive water ended up in the reactor building’s basement. The crucial reactor’s core was no longer usable.

With the Cold War then in full swing, and considering this was one of the first nuclear accidents in the West, the Americans took a great interest in the cleanup.

Mr. Carter was a young U.S. Navy officer based in Schenectady, New York, who was working closely with Admiral Hyman Rickover on the nuclear propulsion system for the Sea Wolf submarine. He was quickly ordered to Chalk River, joining other Canadian and American service personnel.

“I was in charge of building the second atomic submarine … and that is why I went up there,” said Mr. Carter. “There were 23 of us and I was in charge. I took my crew up there on the train.”

Once his turn came, Mr. Carter, wearing white protective clothes that probably, by today’s standards, provided little if any protection from the surging radiation levels, was lowered into the reactor core for less than 90 seconds.

When he was running for president in 1975-76, Carter briefly described this Canadian experience in his campaign book, Why Not the Best?

“It was the early 1950s … I had only seconds that I could be in the reactor myself. We all went out on the tennis court, and they had an exact duplicate of the reactor on the tennis court. We would run out there with our wrenches and we’d check off so many bolts and nuts and they’d put them back on … And finally when we went down into the reactor itself, which was extremely radioactive, then we would dash in there as quickly as we could and take off as many bolts as we could, the same bolts we had just been practicing on.

“Each time our men managed to remove a bolt or fitting from the core, the equivalent piece was removed on the mock-up,” he wrote.

Years later, he was asked if he was terrified going into the reactor. He paused, growing quiet, before answering.

“We were fairly well instructed then on what nuclear power was, but for about six months after that I had radioactivity in my urine,” Mr. Carter said. “They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now. It was in the early stages and they didn’t know.”

As I read the story, the rank of LCDR, USN (or USNR) was bestowed on LBJ and he wore the uniform of same during a tour by air over some Pacific Ocean combat zone while WWII was in progress, the extent of his “service.”

Looks like GHW Bush has a pimple on his teenaged face. But that didn’t stop him from piloting a top of the line war plane in combat.