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To: certrtwngnut

Ted Nugent stands for cowardice and draft dodging. That is what he stands for.


20 posted on 07/12/2014 4:02:47 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: RIghtwardHo

You stand for passing on false stories and undermining conservatives.


22 posted on 07/12/2014 4:17:35 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: RIghtwardHo
From Snopes:

An analysis of Ted Nugent's Selective Service classification record doesn't prove or disprove either version of the story. He did indeed receive a high school student deferment (1-S) in 1967 and then (as he stated) a college student deferment (2-S) in 1968. However, he was reclassified as "available for military service" (1-A) in 1969 and then subsequently rejected as a result of a physical examination and given a 1-Y classification. (The 1-Y classification denoted persons "qualified for service only in time of war or national emergency" and was generally assigned to registrants who had exhibited medical conditions that were limiting but not disabling.) After the 1-Y classification was eliminated by the Selective Service at the end of 1971, Nugent was reclassified as 4-F ("registrant not qualified for any military service"). So, Ted Nugent did have a student deferment for part of the time he was eligible for the Vietnam-era draft, but he also did fail a physical examination and receive a medical exemption (which, as far as we know, he has neither acknowledged nor explained). But in the absence of more specific information about the results of that physical examination and the reasons for his medical exemption, it cannot be ascertained how truthful the account Nugent gave to High Times magazine back in 1977 might be. (Ted Nugent's press representative did not respond to a request for additional information about this subject.)

My analysis, having enlisted in 1969 and being totally familiar with the way things were then and now, is that ted Nugent is no coward, and that he got the same deferments that 90% of the kids I grew up with did.

Also the story about his drug use prior to the physical was made up by him in a later interview with High Times in 1977. He essentially restated almost verbatim the words of another rocker and has since said it was all BS.

36 posted on 07/12/2014 11:08:22 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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