Reagan and Bush earned theirs, they both served IN the military
but carry on over your man/crush
bush did not serve in the military. his daddy hid him out in the national guard where he wasted a million dollars in training costs before he split since he was afraid to drug test and get rectified.
and btw, the black guy is your commander in chief, so i'd get over it if i were you.
you're welcome.
obama derangement syndrome is hysterically funny.
The National Guard is part of the military. Many were killed in Nam! Bush had the potential of going there.
Obama is such an incompetent CIC that it makes his wearing the jacket very reprehensible!
Hey buddy...lookup Champaugn Unit.
Here, I'll do it for you.
Champagne unit
A
champagne unit is a
US military unit staffed by celebrities or people from wealthy or politically powerful families. Such units have often been part of the
National Guard, and
assigned to lower-risk duty inside the United States.
The term is pejorative, with the connotation that such units were havens for those with connections who wished to avoid
conscription into more dangerous duty while still gaining the prestige afforded in the United States to military service. Over a century earlier, such a unit was called a
silk-stocking regiment after the
New York's 7th Regiment, whose
well-heeled members built their own armory, the
Seventh Regiment Armory in the upper East side of Manhattan.
Vietnam War
During the Vietnam war, service in the National Guard and Reserve components were seen as a way to avoid combat. Although some number of Guard and Reserve units were in fact "called-up" to combat duty in every US war since they were founded,
the risk was especially low in the 1970s.
Only 8700 of these soldiers were sent to Vietnam,
0.3% of the personnel who served. Furthermore, a greatly disproportionate number of famous, wealthy, and/or politically connected young men received slots in the Guard or Reserves during Vietnam, including 360 professional athletes such as
Bill Bradley and
Nolan Ryan.
Commenting on this disparity,
General
Colin Powell wrote in his autobiography, "I am angry that so many sons of the powerful and well placed and many professional athletes (who were probably healthier than any of us) managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units. Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to our country."
147th Fighter Group
One well known champagne unit was the
Texas Air National Guard 147th Fighter Interceptor Group, at
Ellington Field in
Houston. During the Vietnam War many well-connected sons landed in this posting, sometimes with the help of politicians such as
Ben Barnes.
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