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Fact check: Biden, like Trump, received multiple draft deferments from Vietnam
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Joe Biden and his record of military service � or lack thereof.... View MoreFact check
FACT CHECK
Fact check: Biden, like Trump, received multiple draft deferments from Vietnam
USA TODAY
Joe Biden and his record of military service � or lack thereof.
"Lifeguard/Football player Joe Biden got five draft deferments for asthma during Vietnam,"
a post claims, alongside a photo of high-school-aged Biden
Biden received five student draft deferments and a medical exemption
Born in November 1942, Biden came of age amid the Vietnam War. But unlike millions of men of
his generation, he never served in the military.
Biden received five student draft deferments, first as an undergraduate at the University of
Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University.
And after a medical exam in April 1968, he received the "1-Y" classification, which meant he could
only be drafted in a national emergency.
Biden released his Selective Service records to the Associated Press in 2008. At the time,
a spokesperson said he was "disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager,"
per The News Journal.
Trump received four student draft deferments and a medical exemption
Born in June 1946, Trump was also a member of the generation called up to serve in the Vietnam
War. Like Biden, he never did.
He received four student draft deferments while an undergraduate at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
And in the spring of 1968, he, too, received the "1-Y" classification � for bone spurs in his heels,
per The New York Times
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