@Baldimo,
Quote:I can't seem to find anything on what you are claiming, but if he did it, then it's a load of crap. He's no vet either.
You didn't try very hard.
She has enough experience using the military to be POTUS
Trump: 'I always felt that I was in the military'
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-military-service-213392
By Nick Gass
Donald Trump did not serve in the military, but according to a report, the Republican presidential candidate and multibillionaire business tycoon said in a forthcoming book that he still "always felt that I was in the military" because he attended a military boarding school and "dealt with those people."
According to an upcoming biography and interview excerpts shared with The New York Times, Trump said that his five years at the New York Military Academy provided him with "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military."
“After the Vietnam War, all those military academies lost ground because people really disrespected the military,” Trump told the author in an excerpt shared with the Times. “They weren’t sending their kids to military school. It was a whole different thing, but in those days — 1964 I graduated — that was a very good thing or tough thing, and it was a real way of life at military academy.”
The book, "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success," written by Michael D'Antonio, is set for a Sept. 22 release.
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Boehner's future as speaker in doubt
By Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan
Trump, who received multiple draft deferments and a high draft lottery number during the Vietnam War, took off a shoe to explain the heel spurs that prompted the medical deferments. The Vietnam war, he added, "was a mistake."
“My number was so incredible and it was a very high draft number. Anyway so I never had to do that, but I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people,” Trump told the author in another excerpt.
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Donald Trump Likens Military School He Was Forced to Attend to Serving in the Actual Military
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By Kathy Ehrich Dowd @kathyehrichdowd
http://www.people.com/article/donald-trump-likens-military-school-to-military-service
09/09/2015 AT 05:00 PM EDT
Donald Trump might not be an actual veteran, but the Republican presidential candidate claims he "always felt that I was in the military," thanks to his time at a military-themed boarding school.
In an interview for the forthcoming biography Never Enough, the man who has upended the 2016 presidential race talked in typically blunt terms about how his high school years spent at New York Military Academy provided him with "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military," according to quotes provided to The New York Times.
Trump, 69, entered the school located near West Point Military Academy in 1959 in the eighth grade at the insistence of his parents because of his poor behavior back home in Queens, and remained there through high school.
Later, the burgeoning real estate mogul received multiple deferments during the Vietnam War followed by a high draft number, and told biographer Michael Mr. D'Antonio that even though he never officially served, his training at the school was in keeping with the rigors of military life.
"My number was so incredible, and it was a very high draft number. Anyway, so I never had to do that, but I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people," he said per the Times, confirming he received a medical deferment for heel spurs.
Trump came under fire earlier this year for criticizing the military record of Sen. John McCain, a onetime Republican presidential nominee and decorated Vietnam War veteran who spent several years in captivity.
"He's not a war hero," Trump said in July. "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured."
According to the Times, the book repeatedly demonstrates that Trump's straightforward, ambitious style has remained unchanged since his youth.
As his New York Military Academy mentor Theodore Dobias reportedly explained it, the businessman was "a conniver, even then."
"[He] just wanted to be first in everything," Dobias also said, per the newspaper. "And he wanted people to know he was first."
His two ex-wives paint a similar picture in interviews for the biography. First ex-wife Ivanka Trump recounted an incident where her then-husband stomped off when she passed him on the ski slope in Aspen.
"He could not take it, that I could do something better than he did," she said, per the Times.
Second ex-wife Marla Maples described him this way: "The little boy that still wants attention."
For his part, Trump – who reportedly admitted in the book that he once gave a music teacher a black eye "because I didn't think he knew anything about music" – acknowledges that he hasn't changed much since childhood. And as expected, he makes no apologies for it.
"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same," he said. "The temperament is not that different."
Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success hits bookstores Sept. 22.
