[Vision2020] Deferments Helped Trump Dodge Vietnam

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of The Smoking Gun at:

 

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/deferments-helped-trump-dod
ge-vietnam

 

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Deferments Helped Trump Dodge Vietnam

How the presidential aspirant avoided fighting for his country

 

APRIL 28--Despite Donald Trump's claim this week that he avoided serving in
the Vietnam War solely due to a high draft number, Selective Service records
show that the purported presidential aspirant actually received a series of
student deferments while in college and then topped those off with a medical
deferment after graduation that helped spare him from fighting for his
country, The Smoking Gun has learned.

 

During a TV interview Tuesday morning, Trump--who spent his high school
years enrolled at the New York Military Academy--said, "I actually got lucky
because I had a very high draft number. I'll never forget, that was an
amazing period of time in my life."

He went on to recall, "I was going to the Wharton School of Finance, and I
was watching as they did the draft numbers and I got a very, very high
number and those numbers never got up to." The word "deferment" was not
mentioned by Trump during his chat with the morning show hosts on WNYW, the
Fox affiliate in New York City.

 

However, Selective Service records reveal that Trump, the fortunate son of a
multimillionaire real estate baron, took repeated steps to avoid serving in
Vietnam.

 

By the time his number (356) was drawn during the December 1, 1969 draft
lottery, Trump had already received four student deferments and a medical
deferment, according to military records on file with the National Archives
and Records Administration. An extract of Trump's Selective Classification
record, seen here, was provided in response to a TSG records request.

 

In fact, the December 1969 draft lottery occurred about 18 months after
Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied
business at the Wharton School. So, while claiming that he would "never
forget" being at Wharton watching the draft numbers being drawn, the
64-year-old Trump seems to have misremembered, as candidates are fond of
saying.

 

Trump obtained his first two Class 2-S student deferments in June 1964 and
December 1965, when he was student at Fordham University in the Bronx. He
was briefly reclassified as 1-A--or "available for military service"--in
late-November 1966, but that classification was switched back to 2-S three
weeks later.

 

Another 2-S deferment is dated January 16, 1968, just months before his
graduation from UPenn (to which he transferred following his sophomore year
at Fordham).

 

Following his UPenn graduation, Trump--no longer qualified for a 2-S
deferment--was again briefly classified as available for service on July 9.
However, three months later, on October 15, his classification was switched
to 1-Y, which was given to men deemed qualified for military service "only
in time of national emergency."

 

The 1-Y classification came a month after Trump underwent an "Armed Forces
Physical Examination," according to Selective Service records, which note
the results of the exam as "DISQ." While the military records do not further
detail why Trump was granted the 1-Y deferment, a 1992 biography of the
businessman by journalist Wayne Barrett reported that Trump received a
medical deferment following the September 17, 1968 exam.

 

Trump's 1-Y classification stayed in effect until February 1, 1972 when it
was changed to a 4-F classification (which covered registrants not qualified
for military service). The change in classification was likely prompted by
the military's December 1971 decision to abolish the 1-Y classification.

 

The Selective Service records also include a copy of the registration card
signed by Trump in June 1964, 10 days after he turned 18. The possible
future Commander-in-Chief, it turns out, has birthmarks on both his heels.

 

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

 

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