Evolving on the issues is a good thing.
Like when someone who protests against the Vietnam war and then a couple years later evolves into a potential Marine recruit. And just as she is embarking on a new life as a married woman to a future governor. That is absolutely fantastic evolution.
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You'd think a Yale grad would be high on the wanted list. And lawyers dont come much younger than 26. 
daughter and I were talking about this earlier and SHE was the one who brought up the downsizing aspect.
So, luckily, some young people do know their history 
much people can evolve - and the month after she married showed up to join the Marines, according to her telling.
She and Mr. Clinton married on Oct. 11, 1975 in Fayetteville.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/15/us/hillary-clinton-says-she-once-tried-to-be-marine.html
But the Marines could not find a job for a graduate of Yale that had passed the bar.
There is no way on earth a recruiter would have called his commanding officer post-haste to find the appropriate office for a recruit with such qualifications. No way. They would have just sent that recruit straight out of the door without batting an eyelash.
Seriously?
I managed to protest the Vietnam War AND do a very long career (for which I receive a nice check every month) in the military.
Are you saying anyone who didn't like Vietnam has no business being Commander in Chief?
Or are you saying anyone who didn't get past the female JAG quotas to serve has no business being Commander in Chief? Or are you saying "No uniform, no POTUS?"
I know there is a guy running who applied for CO status and was refused, and then quickly had a child to reduce his chances of being called up and sent to Vietnam--would that count, too? This same guy is now a cheerleader for a new (and, regrettably, LOUSY) fighter aircraft to be stationed in his home state. Those aircraft aren't going to be used to dust crops.
A LOT of people -- including the fellow pictured below--had a "problem" with Vietnam. That "problem" didn't extend to the concept of military service in general.
It's this kind of foolishness that really brings down the level here. It's possible for a smart candidate to have a nuanced view of things. It's only the Gotcha Game Players who don't see that.
They don't go to OCS, or the academy. They go to an "indoctrination course" where they learn to "sorta" march and they learn the difference between an E-1 and an 0-6. They arrive AS commissioned officers, not "candidates" and not "recruits." They learn how to salute. Chaplains get this treatment at a special chaplain school. Doctors and lawyers get bunched in to a course as a group. It's a very short course, just a few weeks, and there's no screaming, yelling, humiliation, or even arduous inspections. It's all very genteel.
They go to a quick legal course, to learn the UCMJ, and thence to their assignments. After six months, they are promoted to 0-2 (a process that, for a warrior or even a bean counter, normally takes two years) and sent to their initial duty stations. After six more months--and sometimes less, they are promoted to 0-3, a journey that a warfighter would spend a total of four years achieving. The lawyers are often promoted to 0-4 before their fellow line officers who accessed on the same day make 0-3.
Nowadays, you can be Old As Hell and still get into the services. Actually, you could do that anytime if you had special skills (see Hopper, Grace....they just kept dragging her back in). Back then, though, the cut off was more or less as follows: an applicant should not have reached their THIRTY FIFTH birthday by the time they were commissioned. This was in order to do a twenty year career by the time they hit age 55.
Of course, being 27, she was right in the sweet spot for the "Indoctrination" set. Most of the people in an OIS class would have been the same age, or even older. As for doctors, for a rare speciality, like a heart doctor/thoracic surgeon/brain surgeon, they could be as old as the hills and the military would waive their age requirement. I've also seen them do this for Catholic chaplains (who are tough to recruit--they'll throw them in right out of a diocese with a commission and an 0-4 paygrade, without ANY knowledge of military custom/tradition).
Her problem, though, was they weren't taking many women back then. It was an "eye of the needle/Kingdom of Heaven" issue. Women, too, weren't expected, really, to do full careers, and the Services often got irritated if they didn't leave in due time--after all
"Didn't they just join to find a husband?" Being married was a HUGE strike against her--it would not have been were she a man. Women with husbands were regarded as less committed, their loyalties divided. Had she been a thoracic surgeon, they would have taken her even with the baggage of a husband (she would have gone to the Navy, though, not the USMC). A lawyer? Not so much.
If you look at the accession numbers for women in service, you see them start to climb in the eighties and maintain pretty much an upward trajectory. This had more to do with OPPORTUNITY than interest--women were always interested in service, they just weren't given the opportunity to serve.
When I joined the Marines boot camp was FULL of new brides with ivy league educations who had just purchased new homes with their husbands.
and then there is asserting that you own Burger King.
Her for thinking this is acceptable behaviour or those who are gullible enough to believe her story.
Maybe you shouldn't say anything about Santa, wouldn't want to ruin Christmas for anyone.
