• tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I remember attacks in GWB for avoiding the Vietnam draft by taking service in the Air National Guard, which he may or may not have taken seriously. People of a certain age may still see National Guard as a form of draft dodging akin to “bone spurs,” but it’s hard to argue that for a man who spent 20 years there.

    When I hear the dude was a teacher and National Guardsman for 20 years, I’m pretty sure that’s just a guy who took a second job because teaching doesn’t pay shit.

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      3 months ago

      Walz was born in 1964, so him being in the National Guard has nothing to do with dodging the draft anyways, as there was no draft in the US after 1973. The entire conversation is silly. Vance and his puppet masters are just trying to score cheap points on Walz because they are desperate.