Who served in the military?

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Who served in the military?


The full Chickenhawk database
(N.H. Gazette)
The 108th Senate

Let's all take a look at this neocon Bush administration.
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Prominent Democrats

* Representative Richard Gephardt, former House Minority Leader -
Missouri Air National Guard, 1965-71. (1, 2)
* Representative David Bonior - Staff Sgt., United States Air Force
1968-72 (1, 2)
* Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle - 1st Lt., U.S. Air Force SAC
1969-72 (1, 2)
* Former Vice President Al Gore - enlisted August 1969; sent to
Vietnam January 1971 as an army journalist, assigned to the 20th
Engineer Brigade headquartered at Bien Hoa, an airbase twenty miles
northeast of Saigon. More facts about Gore's Service

* Former Senator Bob Kerrey... Democrat... Lt. j.g., U.S. Navy
1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam (1, 2)
* Senator Daniel Inouye, US Army 1943-'47; Medal of Honor, World War
Two (1, 2)
* Senator John Kerry, Lt., U.S. Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze
Star with Combat V, and three awards of the Purple Heart for his service
in combat (1)
* Representative Charles Rangel, Staff Sgt., U.S. Army 1948-52;
Bronze Star, Korea (1, 2)
* Former Senator Max Cleland, Captain, U.S. Army 1965-68; Silver
Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam (1, 2)

* Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) - U.S. Army, 1951-1953. (1)
* Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) - Lt., U.S. Navy, 1962-67; Naval
Reserve, 1968-74. (1, 2)
* Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) - U.S. Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain,
Army Reserve 1979-91 (1)
* Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) - served as a U.S. Army officer in
World War II, receiving the Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons. (1)

* Representative Leonard Boswell (D-IA) - Lt. Col., U.S. Army
1956-76; two tours in Vietnam, two Distinguished Flying Crosses as a
helicopter pilot, two Bronze Stars, and the Soldier's Medal. (1, 2)
* Former Representative "Pete" Peterson, Air Force Captain, POW,
Ambassador to Viet Nam, and recipient of the Purple Heart, the Silver
Star and the Legion of Merit. (1, 2)
* Rep. Mike Thompson, D-CA: Staff sergeant/platoon leader with the
173rd Airborne Brigade, U.S. Army; was wounded and received a Purple
Heart. (1, 2)
* Bill McBride, Democratic Candidate for Florida Governor -
volunteered and served as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam; awarded Bronze Star
with a combat "V." (1)
* Gray Davis, California Governor, Army Captain in Vietnam; received
Bronze Star. (1)
* Pete Stark, D-CA, served in the Air Force 1955-57

Prominent Republicans

* Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not
serve.
* Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey - avoided the draft, did
not serve.
* House Majority Leader Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve
(1). "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was
literally no room for patriotic folks like himself."
* House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve
* Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve. (An impressive
medical resume, but not such a friend to cats in Boston.)
* Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, R-KY - did not serve (1)
* Rick Santorum, R-PA, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did
not serve. (1)
* Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did
not serve.


* Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld - served in the U.S. Navy
(1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor. (1) Served as President
Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East and met with Saddam Hussein
twice in 1983 and 1984.

* GW Bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really
means four years. Still says that he's "been to war." Huh?
* VP Cheney - several deferments (1, 2), the last by marriage (in
his own words, "had other priorities than military service") (1)
* Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - did not serve (1, 2); received seven
deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State

* Jeb Bush, Florida Governor - did not serve. (1)

* Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve (1), too busy being a
Republican.

* Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve (1, 2)
* Former President Ronald Reagan - due to poor eyesight, served in a
noncombat role making movies for the Army in southern California during
WWII. He later seems to have confused his role as an actor playing a
tail gunner with the real thing.
* "B-1" Bob Dornan - avoided Korean War combat duty by enrolling in
college acting classes (Orange County Weekly article). Enlisted only
after the fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm - avoided the draft, did not serve, four (?) student
deferments

* Senator John McCain - McCain's naval honors include the Silver
Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished
Flying Cross. Why did the Bush campaign smear him so? At least Senators
Cleland (D-GA), Kerry (D-MA), Kerrey (D-NE), Robb (D-VA) and Hagel
(R-NE) defended him.
* Former Senator Bob Dole - an honorable man.
http://www.bobdole.org/bio/wwII.php
* Chuck Hagel - two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, Vietnam.
http://www.senate.gov/~hagel/Information/bio.htm
* Duke Cunningham - nominated for the Medal of Honor, received the
Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, fifteen Air Medals, the Purple Heart, and
several other decorations
http://www.house.gov/cunningham/abou....htm#Biography
* Senator Jeff Sessions U.S. Army Reserves, 1973-1986
* Colin Powell. What are we to make of Powell? On the one hand, a
long career as a military manager. On the other hand, accused of
covering up the My Lai massacre. Back on that first hand, one of the
seemingly sane voices in this administration when it comes to Iraq (or
at least he used to be). On the other hand, a clear hypocrite ("I am
angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed...
managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units...")
* Representative Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), served in USMC in Vietnam;
wounded in action.