{"id":62765,"date":"2015-11-12T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62765"},"modified":"2015-11-12T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:11:20","slug":"washington-post-fact-checker-and-hillarys-enlistment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62765","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Fact Checker and Hillary’s enlistment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post’s Fact Checker<\/a> took on the task of rating Hilary Clinton’s claim that she once tried to enlist in the Marine Corps. To refresh your memory, she once told the tale that in 1975, she stuck her head in a Marine Corps recruiting station when she was about 26 years old – according to the story she told, the recruiter told her that she wasn’t much eligible for the Marines because of her age and her eye sight. The Fact Checker gave her Two Pinocchios – meaning that they could neither prove nor disprove the story. So let me help them out;<\/p>\n

In 1975, the military was trying to make the All-Volunteer Force work. They were taking everyone who volunteered. I went in the Army in 1974, we had people who were in their thirties, so that was just ridiculous that a recruiter would turn away a twenty-six-year-old because of her age – especially one with a college education. They were taking people with bad eyesight, as long as it could be corrected with spectacles. There was a guy in our platoon with glasses that looked like soda bottles. Not just because it was the Army – everyone was hurting for recruits in those days. <\/p>\n

The first time that she made the claim was 1994 and according to the Post, even the Left disbelieved her story. The only people who said that they heard something about it, were solid Clintonistas. And, oh, yeah, she got married later that same year.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure that the Post won’t give Ben Carson a pass on his West Point story, but they seem willing to give a pass to Hillary for this story. Anyone who was in the military in 1975 knows how under strength and struggling the services were at the time. They were only a few years away from full integration of women into the services at the time. Considering the limitations of women in their job availability in the military, it’s difficult to believe that poor eye-sight or age would have prevented Clinton from beginning a military career. You know, eye-sight and age might have been a consideration if she planned to be an infantryman or something – but not a lawyer or a clerk.<\/p>\n

But, you know, it’s Hillary and she can say anything she wants to say and the Post stands and applauds. Even her sniper story<\/a> hasn’t precluded her from being a front-runner in the Democrat primary race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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