Wwii Marine
Posted October 15, 2008
By admin
Why do you think there has never been a U.S. President to have served in the Marine Corps?
It may be a generation issue. Was WWII the first conflict in which the marines played a major role?
None of the major candidates for 2008 served in the USMC either. When might we see a marine president?
That's an excellent point, there are fewer Marines than the Army or Navy.
The Corps is a small service. The only one smaller is the Coast Guard. And neither service has produced a veteran who went on to serve as President.
Even the Navy didn't send one of its veterans into the Presidency until the election of 1960. But, from JFK to Gerald Rudolph Ford, we had four Presidents in a row who were former Navy officers.
I only know of one prominent Marine who was " wooed" by political operatives. That was Smedley Butler who had served as Commandant of the Marines. In the early 1930s, a group tried to enlist him in overthrowing FDR and replacing Roosevelt with Butler in a military coup of sorts. To his credit, Butler stayed true to his oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. He got on a train, went to D.C., appeared before a Congressional committee and blew the whistle on the plotters.
I think if some party does pick a former Marine as its standard bearer it will have to be from the ranks of State Governors. Keep your fingers crossed.
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