Article Title: Joe Biden used FIVE student deferments then teenage problems with asthma to avoid joining the millions of Americans who served
Article Excerpt: "...Biden, 81, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 at the age of 29, when the Vietnam War was raging and hundreds of thousands of Americans were being conscripted into the military.
He himself never served in the conflict, instead receiving five student deferments and then a disqualification on medical grounds.
The disqualification was for having suffered asthma as a teenager, although he was a student athlete. ..."
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