From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
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Subject: Military records
Summary: Get the records straight, according to Washington _Post_
Keywords: Military records, Bush, Clinton, Quayle, Gore
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:13:44 GMT
Followup-To: alt.politics.bush
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

From Mark Stencel in the Aug2092 Washington _Post_, here are the details
of military service of the candidates for President and Vice President.

* President George Bush:
- Enlisted in US Naval Reserve on 18th birthday in June 1942
Active duty: Aug 1942 to Sep 1945. Youngest flyer in Navy at the
time.
- Served on USS San Jacinto in the Pacific theater as torpedo
bomber.
Sep 1944: plane shot down during a mission. He bailed out and
was rescued by a US submarine, but his two crewmates were killed.
- Awarded Distinguishing Flying Cross, three Air Medals.

* Governor Bill Clinton (ARK)
- Spring 1968: Classified 1-A (eligible for draft) while a student at
Georgetown Univ.
- Feb 1969: passed pre-induction physical during post-graduate studies
at Oxford, England. Received draft notice late Apr 1969.
"According to Clinton, who opposed the war, his local draft board in
Arkansas then gave him permission to finish the academic term. Clinton
returned to the United States that summer and, after failing physicals
for Navy and Air Force officer programs, enrolled in the Army's ROTC
program (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) at U Arkansas, providing him
with a draft deferment. Clinton has said he planned to attend law school
in Arkansas after another year in England but never did. In the fall of
1969, he asked to have his name put back in the draft pool but received
a high lottery number, 311, and was never called. That December he wrote
a letter to the commander of the ROTC unit in Arkansas explaining his
reasons for not joining the unit and thaking him for 'saving me from the
draft.' "

* Vice President J. Danforth Quayle
"Has said he favored the Vietnam War but grew disillusioned with US
strategy there by the time he took his pre-induction physical in 1969.
As he neared graduation from DePauw University in May 1969, Quayle spoke
to his parents about joining the Indiana National Guard in order to go
to law school. Quayle would only have had to serve six months' active
duty in the Guard and was unlikely to be sent to Vietnam. Quayle's
parents contacted his uncle Eugene S. Pulliam, assistant publisher of
the Indianapolis _News_ at that time. Pulliam contacted the newspaper's
managing editor, who met with Quayle and put him in touch with a Guard
colonel. The unit Quayle joined in Indianapolis that May was not full,
and he and his commanders say no special arrangements were made to
accommodate him. Quayle served in the Guard until 1975, the year after
he received his law degree from Indiana U."

* Senator Albert Gore, Jr.
"Opposed the Vietnam War but volunteered to serve in the Army after
graduating from Harvard University in 1969."
- Appeared in campaign advertisement for father in uniform. Sen. Gore,
Sr.'s opposition to the war was an issue in his unsuccessful bid for
reelection in 1970.
- Military journalist assigned to engineering brigade in Vietnam, "where
he saw but did not participate in combat." Left the service in 1971
after six months in Vietnam.

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