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Donald Trump who fired all his generals and hired the Sept 11 bush administration and is leading world war 3, avoided the military draft 5 times
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[link to www.businessinsider.com (secure)]
A young Donald Trump was seemingly in good health when he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, as the United States was mired in one of the bloodiest years of the Vietnam War.
The 22-year-old - who was 6 feet 2 inches tall and an athlete - had already avoided the military draft four times in order to complete his college education.
But that spring, as he was set to graduate, he received a diagnosis that landed him a fifth draft deferment that would once again keep him out of Vietnam: bone spurs.
President Trump sat out the war and instead went on to join his father in business. The New York Times reported that the president, as a young man, said his "heel spurs," which are protrusions caused by calcium buildup on the heel bone, made him unfit for service.
Heel spurs can be cured by stretching, orthotics, or surgery. The president said he never got surgery for the condition.
The diagnosis came two years after Trump had been declared available for service and passed a physical exam.
On Wednesday, The Times reported that a Queens podiatrist who rented office space from Fred Trump, the president's father, might have given the president his diagnosis as a courtesy to his father.
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