• Sarah Palin, mother of five children has not served in
uniform but has a son enlisted in the U.S. army

• Sarah Palin's 19-year old son Track was assigned to an
infantry brigade and deployed in September 2008 for twelve months
to one of the most dangerous corners of Iraq.

• Palin had donned the role of Commander-in-Chief of the
4,200-member Alaska National Guard when she was the state's
Governor.  Though she has not fought in combat, Palin's two years
of military command experience as Commander-in-Chief of Alaska
National Guard has made her keenly aware of how her military
decisions or the decisions she influenced would affect the men
and women serving in the armed forces. 

• Alaska is the first line of defense in the missile
interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of
the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire
nation from ballistic missile attacks.

• As the Governor of Alaska, Palin was briefed on highly
classified military issues, homeland security, counter terrorism
and is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital
to the entire country's defense. Her exposure to classified
material is pretty high compared to her rivals.
		

• Mike Huckabee had not voluntarily signed up for military
service and came of age as draft was ending. A brief explanation
on why a stint in the army is missing in Huckabee?s resume,
states the reason as 'flat feet'. 

• Huckabee had all the traits of a natural leader and
longed to be of service to his people but his flat feet became a
roadblock. "These flat feet have bothered me all my life" he is
quoted as saying. 

• When he was a freshman in college, Huckabee had enrolled
in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and looked forward
to serving in combat. On noticing his flat feet, the ROTC
Director discouraged him from joining the army.  Huckabee
remembers, "He told me there was no point in my continuing
because the army wouldn't have me anyway."

• The Vietnam War came to an end, thus ending Huckabee's
desire to pursue a career in the military. Perfectly
understanding that every chapter in his life had been God's
doing, Huckabee is a wee bit cheerless when he says, "My flat
feet ended what I'm sure would have been a heralded military
career in the post-Vietnam 1970s."