Let's hear it for database maintenance
I received some mail yesterday for a guy who hasn't lived in this apartment for oh... about 12 years.
2011-04-30
Oops? Could this be the end of Trump's presidential aspirations?
Eh, probably not.
Still... it turns out, that he may have dodged the draft, rather then just being lucky that his number didn't get called.
Because, it appears his number did get called. 18 months after he graduated college. During college, he received a few 2-S deferments. (2-S being the "I am a college student." category.) You can view his classification record here.
Oddly enough, he went from a "college student deferment" (2-S) to "available for unrestricted military service" (1-A), then back to 2-S, then back to 1-A, then to 1-Y (available for service, but has a condition that may limit his activity, so he could only be drafted in the case of a national emergency), then to 4-F. (Although the 4-F part was because 1-Y as a category was eliminated in December of '71.)
Here's the kicker though. The second time he was '1-A' was three months before he was suddenly found to be '1-Y'. Now, sure, it's possible that he developed some condition in that time. But it's also possible that Trump's daddy (who, by the way, was a multi-millionaire) paved the way for his son to skip out on military service.
So yeah... in a world where character meant something, this would probably end Trump's presidential aspirations. Here? Nah... Fox News will either ignore it or gloss over it, because hey, Obama's college transcripts won't speculate on themselves.
Edit: Well, fuck me sideways. There's actually an article on this over at Fox News.
Still... it turns out, that he may have dodged the draft, rather then just being lucky that his number didn't get called.
Because, it appears his number did get called. 18 months after he graduated college. During college, he received a few 2-S deferments. (2-S being the "I am a college student." category.) You can view his classification record here.
Oddly enough, he went from a "college student deferment" (2-S) to "available for unrestricted military service" (1-A), then back to 2-S, then back to 1-A, then to 1-Y (available for service, but has a condition that may limit his activity, so he could only be drafted in the case of a national emergency), then to 4-F. (Although the 4-F part was because 1-Y as a category was eliminated in December of '71.)
Here's the kicker though. The second time he was '1-A' was three months before he was suddenly found to be '1-Y'. Now, sure, it's possible that he developed some condition in that time. But it's also possible that Trump's daddy (who, by the way, was a multi-millionaire) paved the way for his son to skip out on military service.
So yeah... in a world where character meant something, this would probably end Trump's presidential aspirations. Here? Nah... Fox News will either ignore it or gloss over it, because hey, Obama's college transcripts won't speculate on themselves.
Edit: Well, fuck me sideways. There's actually an article on this over at Fox News.