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[Chin music]

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[RHMerriman]

1. President Carter entered the USN in 1943 as a midshipman at Annapolis, and remained on active duty

President Carter entered the USN in 1943 as a midshipman at Annapolis, and remained on active duty until 1953, so that's 10 years active duty, including in wartime (WW II and Korea) and on hazardous duty (submarines, including nuclear subs); he remained in the active reserves until 1961, so that's 18 years of service.

Eighteen years longer than the entire Trump family, going across four generations.

[pamdb]

2. Hey

Did I miss Tammy Duckworth?

[keithbvadu2]

4. Tom DeLay and Dan Quayle military service

Tom DeLay and Dan Quayle military service

He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/1999/05/what_did_you_do_in_the_war_hammer.html