• Mitt Romney has not served in the military.

• Before joining college, Romney had received a deferment
from the draft as a Mormon 'minister of religion' for the
duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a
half years.  At the time, there was an agreement of sorts between
the church and the Selective Service allowing exemptions from the
draft for missionaries.

• Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also
received nearly three years of deferments for his academic
studies 

• In April 1965, Romney registered with the Selective
Service but was not considered readily available for military
service until December 1970.  When he became eligible for
military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual
draft lottery and at that time no one drawing higher than 195 was
drafted.

• Romney once disclosed in an interview that he would have
served if he had been drafted. 

• Romney said that he was supportive of his country and "I
longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be
representing our country there and in some ways it was
frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops
that were fighting in Vietnam."

• It is a fact that none of Romney's five sons have ever
served in the military and when questioned about this, Romney
said that his sons were showing their patriotism by "helping me
get elected".
		

• 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."