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However, after the 1988 presidential election, the shine had dulled on military-veteran politicians, and through 2012, "the candidate with the better military record lost." [2] As of December 2018, George H. W. Bush was the most recent president to have served in combat (as an aircraft carrier-based bomber pilot in World War II). [3]
Reached age 18 in 1979, six years after the end of the military draft in the U.S. Donald Trump: Attended New York Military Academy for secondary school, graduating in 1964. Received four draft deferments while attending college, then one for medical reasons after he was diagnosed with bone spurs on his heels. [27]
Trump at New York Military Academy, 1964. Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, ... Despite Trump's denial of falsifying records, evidence that he reimbursed ...
President-elect Trump has stated on numerous occasions that the U.S. military, after a good first 170 years or so, has largely forgotten how to win wars since 1945. This claim is part of his ...
In this October 2018 photo, then-US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens as then-President Donald Trump answers questions during a meeting with military leaders in the Cabinet Room in Washington, DC.
How will Trump's actions differ from past military deployments at the border? The administrations of George W. Bush and Obama sent thousands of National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in ...
On his first day in office as 47th president, Donald Trump issued executive orders which rescinded many of the previous administration's executive actions, withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization and Paris Agreement, [1] rolled back federal recognition of gender identity, [2] founded the Department of Government Efficiency ...
Days later, Trump tweeted that Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan would become Acting Secretary on January 1, 2019, two months earlier than Mattis's original departure date. Patrick M. Shanahan: January 1, 2019 June 23, 2019 Shanahan withdrew from consideration for Secretary of Defense. [54] Deputy Secretary of Defense: July 19, 2017 January 1, 2019