Posted on 12/26/2018 1:50:47 PM PST by Kaslin
I was 3 pounds underweight for the Marines. Recruiter said that a visit to the malt shop might help. Two hours and three banana splits later, I took the first towards becoming a Marine..
Don’t you need an army doctor to confirm this? Why take the word of some schmuck from Queens?
I chose the same course you did mostly for the same reasons and I was an Air Force brat, so in I went and had nine of the best years of my life.
I was post war (1979) and the intake Doc had me duck walk. After the duck walk, the tops of my feet were a bit red from dragging them on the carpet and he tried to DQ me for that. The Marine SSGT overseeing us told him to shut up and pass me.
Intake can get weird depending on if snowflakes have infiltrated or not.
You forgot to mention it’s on PAGE ONE.
Didn’t Bubba just say....I’m not going?
And not only lie about a diagnosis, but breach doctor-patient confidentiality.
How is this not slander and/or a HIPAA violation?
“Once upon a time, long, long ago there was a fairy princess.......
My doc spent a lot of time speaking quietly with the guy next to me, but spent no time with me.
End of day, I'm stamped F-4, rejected because of an undescended testicle ? It was late in Vietnam, and I was pleased, having no clue what the real significance was. I didn't think to question it. A year or so later at the NIU health center, I asked the doc why an undescended testicle would keep a guy out of the army.
"You don't have an undescended testicle." Holy crap. They stamped my papers with the rejection of the guy next to me.
Divine intervention. I would have been a poor soldier, too..or worse, dead. I like to think they caught his ailment at the next round of exams.
this is easy to refute....all that needs to be done is have a physical exam by a doctor today....bone spurs do not magickly disappear and if it was corrected years later surgically that to would be in his medical record.
Not even if they have a picture of him on the grassy knoll holding a smoking 6.5×52mm Carcano Model 91/38 infantry rifle.
I was in the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas when Bill Clinton came to Fayetteville to plead his case. I never met Bill Clinton, either that weekend or before or after; but I do know that he stayed with Mac McClarty that weekend. Mac was a friend of mine back then and, of course, a long time friend of Bill. I was part of student government back then and Mac was the President of the Student Body. I was supposed to be escort Senator Barry Goldwater who was scheduled to speak on campus, but I had a hot date with my future wife and begged off. McClarty told me that he would find a replacement and I forgot about it. The replacement on that weekend was Bill Clinton.
I knew COL Holmes and his executive office, LTC Clint Jones. COL was a survivor of the Bataan Death March and spent WWII in a Japanese POW Camp. LTC Jones was a recepient of the Distinguished Service Cross for valorous actions in Korea. Holmes was pressured by the Arkansas Governor and Senator Fulbright to admit Clinton. In the end, he agreed to do it because since Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and that fact would help the ROTC program. I think that he made a good decision. At that time, many graduate students and law students were applying to ROTC since their deferments were ending. Holmes could only accept about 100 candidates from hundreds of applicants, but Clinton was certainly in the top 100 candidates.
When Clinton got a high draft number and wrote the famous letter to Holmes, COL Holmes ordered LTC Jones to destroy the Clinton file. He believed that it wouldn’t be fair to Clinton years later. LTC Jones did not agree and secretly kept a copy. Both were honorable men, unlike Clinton, and made reasonable decisions. Both of those men molded my character and I remember them fondly.
He had the letter pleading for his deferral all ready in his pocket and then he got his very high number, which meant he would almost definitely never be drafted, and he never mailed the letter.
There was a book published in 1996 or so that told this story and now I can’t find it. Was it the Marranis book? Not sure.
HIPAA doesn’t apply to anyone the Democrats don’t like.
I don’t remember civilian doctors doing draft physicals. I would think they’d have confirmed anything diagnosed by a private doctor.
Something like this, but he "put himself back into the draft" because he had received his high number.
The troops in Iraq look very happy to be visited by CIC Trump.
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