ltmurnau | Cheney shootin' peasants, I mean pheasants...

.. though technically it was quail, not Quayle.

The only thing I have to say about this, the first incident where a serving Vice-President has shot another person since Alexander Hamilton, is that if Dick Cheney had actually served in the military, he would at least have gained proper weapons handling skills.

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Military Service Records of Prominent US Politicians and Public Figures

DEMOCRATS:

* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; Sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam. Paraplegic from war injuries. Served in Congress
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam - Bronze Star with Combat V
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg

REPUBLICANS

* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor
* George W. Bush: Failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam; disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
* "B-1 Bob" Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Vietnam POW, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. Remember how the Bush campaign trashed him in the Republican primaries in 2000?
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem, " although continued in NFL for 8 years as quarterback.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

Pundits & Preachers

* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
* Ted Nugent: did not serve.
* Michael Moore: did not serve.
* Jon Stewart: did not serve.
* Charlton Heston: Sergeant, Army Air Corps in WW2, in Kodiak, Alaska.

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Here's a bigger list: The Chickenhawk Database