Military Advice to a Prospective Candidate

Advice to a young would be candidate for President: don't serve in uniform in War time. First, you may get killed. Second, you may get maimed and end up like Dole - defeated at the polls and stuck married to Elizabeth. Better to have been either too old or too young to have served. Unless you come from a clandestinely adept political dynasty, in which case you can get a preferntial enlistment allowing you to wear a spiffy flight suit by qualifying to fly an obsolete aircraft that would never be used in the War, with the right to drop your flight status whenever you want and to come and go as you please