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(11,804 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)So my question is, why do the rest of the Republicons idolize so many draft-dodging chickenhawks ?
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)After completing fourteen home-study Army Extension Courses, Reagan enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve[33] on April 29, 1937, as a private assigned to Troop B, 322nd Cavalry at Des Moines, Iowa.[34] He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the cavalry on May 25, 1937.[35]
Reagan was ordered to active duty for the first time on April 18, 1942. Due to his nearsightedness, he was classified for limited service only, which excluded him from serving overseas.[36] His first assignment was at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation at Fort Mason, California, as a liaison officer of the Port and Transportation Office.[37] Upon the approval of the Army Air Force (AAF), he applied for a transfer from the cavalry to the AAF on May 15, 1942, and was assigned to AAF Public Relations and subsequently to the First Motion Picture Unit (officially, the "18th Army Air Force Base Unit" in Culver City, California.[37] On January 14, 1943, he was promoted to first lieutenant and was sent to the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is The Army at Burbank, California.[37] He returned to the First Motion Picture Unit after completing this duty and was promoted to captain on July 22, 1943.[34]
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SlipperySlope
(2,751 posts)Some of these teabaggers seem like they just walked out of a Warner Brother's cartoon. At least Reagan had a certain degree of rationality instead of living in a fantasy cuckoo-land where up is down and black is white.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)In my book, he qualifies as a Republicon chicken hawk
trusty elf
(7,402 posts)That didn't stop him from lying about it though. He claimed on more than one occasion that he was present when the Buchenwald camp was liberated.
I agree with you, Berlum. Raygun was a repube chicken hawk.
http://www.salon.com/2010/05/20/bushreagan/
LiberalArkie
(15,729 posts)At the time he enlisted he did not know what the future entailed.
I can't say much good about him, but he was more than a man than Bush II or Cheney or the the rest of the Chickenhawks.
calimary
(81,511 posts)They never put their butts in harm's way. They never bet their asses and their own blood and lives and limbs. They got off easy, safely behind a desk somewhere. They never saw war, and never understood what horrible wreckage and waste it is. Frankly, I'm not impressed that reagan made movies for the Army as an enlistee. That uniform was little more than just another movie costume for him.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I'll put it to good use, I promise.