Some info for Veterans day

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_military_service

31 of 43 Presidents have served in the military , one more participated as a civilian in a military action and 2 were present at battles as civilians.


Barack Obama    None    None    None

George W. Bush    Texas Air National Guard    First Lieutenant    Stateside service during Vietnam War (1968–1973).

Bill Clinton    None    None    None

George H.W. Bush    United States Naval Reserve    Lieutenant    World War II (1942–1945) Distinguished Flying Cross

Ronald Reagan    United States Army Reserve, United States Army Air Corps    Captain    Stateside service during World War II (1942–1945); Army Reserve (1937–1942) See also: List of United States Presidents by military rank and Ronald Reagan for more information on military service.

Jimmy Carter    United States Navy    Lieutenant    World War II at the United States Naval Academy Sea duty and stateside service 1946-1953 during the Korean War

Gerald Ford    United States Naval Reserve    Lieutenant Commander    World War II (1942–1945; combat on USS Monterey, discharged in 1946)

Richard Nixon    United States Naval Reserve    Commander    World War II (1942–1945)

Lyndon B. Johnson    United States Naval Reserve    Commander[1]    World War II received Silver Star medal after airplane he was riding in was attacked by enemy aircraft

John F. Kennedy    United States Navy    Lieutenant    World War II received Navy and Marine Corps Medal and Purple Heart

Dwight D. Eisenhower    United States Army    General of the Army    Stateside service during World War I. Served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II (1942–1945). Visited troops in Korea in December 1952. Entire active-duty career spanned from 1915 until 1952.

Harry S. Truman[2]    United States Army, United States Army Reserve    Colonel    World War I (1917–1918); was then transferred to the army reserve and retired in 1953.

Franklin D. Roosevelt    None    None    None; however Witnessed World War I while serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in France

Herbert Hoover    None    None    None; however he did help guide US Marines in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion

Calvin Coolidge    None    None    None

Warren G. Harding    None    None    None

Woodrow Wilson    None    None    None

William Howard Taft    None    None    None; United States Secretary of War 1904-1908

Theodore Roosevelt    United States Army    Colonel    Spanish–American War – only U.S. President to receive the Medal of Honor (awarded posthumously in 2001)

William McKinley    United States Army    Brevet Major    American Civil War

Benjamin Harrison    United States Army    Brigadier General    American Civil War

Grover Cleveland    None    None    None    

Chester A. Arthur    New York State Militia    Brigadier General    Served as Quartermaster General before and during the American Civil War (1858–1865).

James Garfield    United States Army    Major General    American Civil War (1861–1863; left the army to serve in the United States House of Representatives).

Rutherford B. Hayes    United States Army    Major General    American Civil War

Ulysses S. Grant    United States Army    General of the Army    Mexican-American War and American Civil War; served 1843-1854 and 1861-1868.

Andrew Johnson    United States Army    Brigadier General    American Civil War; served as Military Governor of Tennessee in 1862.

Abraham Lincoln    Illinois State Militia    Captain    Black Hawk War (served three months in 1832); see Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hawk War.

James Buchanan    Pennsylvania State Militia    Private    War of 1812

Franklin Pierce    United States Army    Brigadier General    Mexican-American War

Millard Fillmore    New York State Militia    Major    American Civil War

Zachary Taylor    United States Army    Major General    War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Second Seminole War, Mexican-American War; entire career spanned from 1808 until 1848.

James K. Polk    Tennessee State Militia    Colonel    Joined local militia, but never fought in any war during his service

John Tyler    United States Army    Captain    War of 1812

William Henry Harrison    United States Army    Major General    Northwest Indian War, War of 1812

Martin Van Buren    None    None    None

Andrew Jackson    North Carolina militia, United States Army    General    American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Creek War, First Seminole War

John Quincy Adams    None    None    None; however he was a witness to Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 and reportedly was a non-participant in a Naval Battle between a British ship and a US ship he was on with his father during the American Revolution.

James Monroe    Continental Army    Major    American Revolutionary War

James Madison    Virginia militia    Colonel    American Revolutionary War, did not see action

Thomas Jefferson    Virginia militia    Colonel    Administrative position, did not see action. As Governor of Virginia, fled during British raid to avoid capture

John Adams    None    None    Adams served as chairman of the Continental Congress's Board of War (1776–1777), making him the simultaneous equivalent of today's Secretary of Defense and Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee; was a semi-participant in a naval engagement between a British and US ship during the American Revolution.

George Washington    Virginia militia, Virginia Regiment, Continental Army    General of the Armies    French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War