@@JackRed6666 the last president which saw military combat was George Bush Sr. If I remember correctly, having served in WW2 as a pilot I think he was shot down at one point 🤔
Washington was given the General of the Armies rank posthumously in the 1970’s. Only John J. Pershing has actually held the rank while leading in the field.
General Grant was also "General of the Armies" but is ranked below Pershing, but 1st in Seniority to All 5 Star General of the Army, such as Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, etc.
@@roberthudson1959 Actually Pershing and Chief of Staff Tasker H Bliss were promoted to full General (4-star) in 1917 for the length of the emergency, Peyton C March took over as CoS in 1918 and got his 4th star, and Pershing received a permanent appointment to General of the Armies (still 4-star) when he returned to the States in 1919, so he never led men in the field as General of the Armies. The 4-star General rank was not restricted at that point (Douglas MacArthur was 4-star General in 1933 as Army chief of staff). The 5-star General of the Army was created late in WW2 (1944). Although Pershing never wore more that 4 stars in his life, in later years he wore gold stars as opposed to silver, and it was held that as CoS he could design his own uniform. 9 Army/Navy officers received 5-star pormotions by act of Congress either very late in the war or in the years after the war ended. The 9 are Gen George C. Marshall 16 December 1944, Gen Douglas MacArthur 18 December 1944, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower 20 December 1944, Gen Henry H. Arnold 21 December 1944, Gen Omar Bradley 22 September 1950, Adm William D. Leahy 15 December 1944, Adm Ernest King 17 December 1944, Adm Chester W. Nimitz 19 December 1944, and Adm William Halsey Jr. 11 December 1945.
Glad to see the put Theodore Roosevelt's Congressional Medal of Honor in there, the only US President to have been awarded it. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize. FLY NAVY!!!
@@empereurloutre Well, Commander in Chief of the Armed forces is part of the presidents Job description. Also, military experience teaches skills that are very useful for bring a president.
okay 1st, Grant was the first person to be awarded General of the Army, and he did so long before EIsenhauer which means he is and always will be senior to Ike. 2nd, Ike had very limited combat command experience, having only commanded a battalion, and at no point ever personally commanded an Army. Ike was a political and administrative General, who was necessary for commanading multiple armies, but he had absolutely no combat command at all during World War II. Grant however had Commanded a Brigade, a Division, and then a Corps(It was called an Army but later in the war would have been a Corps strengthed formation), and finally an Army during 1862, all of which was engaged in combat, during which he force an enemy Army to Surrender. In 1863 He forced another Confederate Army to Surrender on July 4 1863 on the same day meade was unable to corner and force Lee's Army to surrender. He then took over an entirely seperate Army(Army of the Cumberland) under his command along with his existing command(Army of the Tennesee) and Relieved Union Forces at Chattanooga before Complete forcing a total Confederate withdrawl from the area. At the start of 1864 Grant was Made the first Lieutenant General since George Washington, and was placed in command of all Union Armies(which would result in an entirely new rank to be created along with a suborndinate rank below him and above Lieutenant General). Grant was the ultimate Commander of Every single Soldier in the Army, something Ike never was. Also How in the fuck is Reagan, a douche who spent the entire Second World War making training films more experience than JFK who commanded a PT BOAT Squadron, and did so in combat?
I don’t think he ranked the individual presidents by combat experience, so Reagan coming before Kennedy isn’t because he’s saying he had more experience.
theyre ranked by....rank, only then by experience. so the order is pretty much correct. id argue that eisenhower outranks washington, since he commanded more troops, but then again ww2 had multiple countries, and washington legit created a brand new one, so you could say washington is still number 1. grant, despite having more experience, could be argued as a lower rank than eisenhower. eisenhower was the SUPREME COMMANDER of all the US forces in europe. whereas grant was certainly top brass, but not the only guy on the block, he had to share the front with other generals of equal rank.
@@joshuaespinoza8325 No that is completely incorrect. Eisenhauer was a political General who made no battlefield decisions. Grant was the Supreme Commander of All union Armies, he was the only Full General in American history to that point, Halleck was the only other four star General in the Civil War and he was the administrative head of the Army, Grant was further Granted 5 Star rank at the end of the Civil War, he was the first and until after World War One the only 5 star to hold that rank while alive.
WAS. Not anymore. Trump got a deferment from Vietnam War for a fake injury and no one cared anymore. He also called McCain a loser for being captured as a POW during Vietnam War, and cons seemed to be ok with that.
@@yackawaytube And Clinton burned his draft card and after being drafted, avoided it via connections and only came back when he got a draft number that wouldn't be selected. Joe biden also avoided the draft same way as trump, but more political connections.
LBJ's service was at best overstated. He was made a Lt. Com. right out of the gate, went on one flight that returned to base because of engine trouble was awarded a silver star for that. Ridiculous!
@@morethan3756 how does enlisting or in George Bush's case get commissioned be considered draft dodging? That is literally the exact opposite of dodging service lol go back to school and pay attention this time please
@@zovakxii3414 Field Marshal Dwight D Eisenhower, Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, mastermind of D-Day, and American President. Think of him as the Modern Day George Washington.
Fun fact: Willian Henry Harrison served one month as president. He refused to wear a coat during his inauguration and caught a cold and died 30 days later.
He was one of a few presidents that died in office of illnesses during that era. Some historians have hypothesized that it was due to DC's water reservoir being horribly contaminated at that time. The presidents of that era were quite literally drinking shitwater.
Fun Fact… John Tyler’s (10th US President) grandson is still alive in 2021. To put that in perspective, Tyler was born when George Washington was president. Amazing…
Your question made me think of something. Kennedy Sr. had two sons (I don't include Ted because he was the runt of the family). And Biden Sr. had two sons. Kennedy's oldest son served and died. Biden's oldest son served and died (not in war but you know what I mean). Both Kennedy and Biden's second oldest sons liked to fool around and get into trouble. JFK becomes president but not Hunter Biden because he chose not to run for political office. His father becomes president. What will happen to Biden Sr.?
Yeah, you saw that too, eh? Amidst all the staid and stolid military portraits of the rest, Reagan's cocked hat and sunny smile makes for SUCH a contrast. I mean, compare his photo to that of his immediate predecessor in office!
In 1976, as part of commemorations for the U.S. Bicentennial, General George Washington was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. Although the law did not actually specify the number of stars, some U.S. newspapers and members of Congress described this as a "six-star rank". His appointment had been to serve as "General and Commander in Chief of the Army of the United Colonies"
@@kanalkanna According to the commercial that used to run (not sure what it was even advertising, maybe the National Guard), he wrestled another solider for the command position.
Lyndon Johnson's combat experience consisted of ONE reconnaissanse flight over enemy territory that aborted early and returned to base. He was then given the silver star and he returned to Washington DC as a war hero. The flight crew did not get medals and were shot down an killed a few days later.
Your video lists Jimmy Carter as having no combat experience, but his commendations include the American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, China Service Medal, and National Defense Service Medal. As a submarine officer off the coast of China from 1950-1952, his missions, while surely classified, would nonetheless have been in combat during the early years of the Korean War.
You should make a similar list for the Roman republic, where the equivalent elected office was "consul" (2 people elected each year, which became known as the year of X and Y being consuls). Occasionally, one official was promoted to temporary emperor (imperator) for a short time.
Some of these are slightly misleading. Thomas Jefferson, for example, was commissioned as an officer, but basically carried out managerial duties like a civilian. He held rank, but in a modern context would have been like GS-15. I don't believe he had any actual military training like marching or drills. Also, Lincoln had experience as both an enlisted man and a commissioned officer, although his total time spent in the militia was pretty short.
Higher the army officer rank, lower their bellicosity? That would be interesting to be seen how ready were these presidents to send us armed forces to war compared to their military rank
we know that for example ike believed that military action should be the last resort genuinely. he kept us out of all the quagmires like suz in the 1950s.
there are two kinds of officers in this case... staff officers and line officer. no shame in being either. someone needs to go out and fight and someone needs to make sure there is ammo for the guy doing the fighting.
Chester A Arthur as Inspector General for the New York State Militia was non-combat (staff officer), Andrew Johnson as Military Governor of Tennessee in Civil War, non-combat William Howard Taft as head of the Red Cross, non-combat. John F Kennedy as commander of a Patrol Torpedo boat (PT-109, crew of 12-15) was combat (line officer), Gerald Ford and George Bush Sr as Naval Aviators in WW2, combat, and all three saw combat qualified service (okay so Kennedy's PT-109 was rammed and sunk by IJN destroyer on one of his very first patrols, it counts especially as he was injured in the encounter).
George Washington was the best fighting man ever to hold the Presidency. His exploits during the French-Indian War and the Revolution are legendary. Washington made many strategic blunders, but under fire he was as courageous as they come. He had a habit of leading his troops in battle in front of them.
Sorry, Washington leading his men into battle by being in front rank, that was expected of Colonels and Leftenant Colonels in the Royal Army of the time (yes, I said "Royal Army", Washington was serving at the time in the Virginia Militia which took the field under Royal Army General Braddock in that campaign), so I do not see that much extraordinary heroism in the act. That was a good way to get your officers killed at much higher rates than they should be, and that sometimes means your regiment could end up stuck out on the field being butchered if all the officers are killed first and that did happen from time to time. Point of fact, Washington would have probably been branded a coward by the RA regulars if he hadn't been in the front rank with his men.
@@georgewnewman3201 I believe the Royal Army was never a term applied to the British Army. Some Regiments may have had the term Royal attached to them, but the Army as a whole was never called that. It may have had something to do with the modern British Army being a creation of Parliament during the English Civil War era.
@@TheLAGopher I thank you for correcting my terminology, but my point remains: Washington during the Seven Years War/French & Indian War led his troop from the front as was expected of Colonels of the British Army while Generals were allowed to stay to the rear.
joe biden was 18 years old in 1960. dodged the draft for military service in vietnam (five freaking times) because of asthma, even though he was a life guard and played football in high school and college. somehow when joe got older the asthma disappeared. amazing
trump had a verifiable medical condition. joe biden has asthma but you never see him use an inhaler. ever. yet he was playing football and could swim apparently if he was a lifeguard
Right? For 4 years all you heard was Cadet Bone Spurs with 4 draft deferments. But now we got Ole Popcorn Joe "Sniff'em" Biden who had 5 freaking deferments because of asthma while playing football and being a lifeguard with hairy legs, and not a freaking peep from the media about it.
and none went through Vietnam, Korea, or any other war since. Last President to serve over seas in a war was G.W. Bush. funny how we are now in the longest running series of conflicts- almost like the two are connected.
@@MrChickennugget360 GW Bush never went over seas. He actually hardly showed up for training stateside as a guardsmen either. Serving maybe 2 or 3 good years out of the 6 he was obligated to do. But when you're powerful and well connected, you get to do whatever you want with at most a slap on the wrist like Biden's coked up son who should have been sent to military prison, anybody else would have for his crimes.
quite sad. i mean clinton could've just done a stint with the air national guard even trump. could've joined the navy or something. you could actually learn some pretty nifty useful real world things in the non combat services.
@@cosmeticscameo8277 In the Vietnam era, many of the best and brightest felt that service in the Vietnam War was below them and that the draft (and the chance of dying in combat) was ruining their chances of doing great things. In the words of Dick Cheney "I had better things to do"
@@TheLAGopher ok... we all know any aspiring politician knows military service in the guards, etc just adds to street cred. it doesn't take away street cred... but to each their own
The U.S. Constitution demands that the U.S. military be under control of the civilian U.S. government. Many other countries have tried it the other way around, with disatrous results.
@@mph7282 I'm not familiar with that clause. do you have a reference? I assume it was added in later down in history as George Washington had a military career prior to office?
@@simunator United States Constitution Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States..." It was extremely important to the founders that an elected, civilian government have authority and command over the use of the U.S. miliatry. This is why the President is given authority as Commander in Chief, and why the power to declare war lies with the elected Congress. Of course many Presidents had prior military experience, but President is not a military position, it is a civilian one. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who was a general in the U.S. Army, had to resign his military commission when he ran for President.
@@simunator Washington was no longer in the Army when he became President. You can't be on active duty and be President at the same time. For example, Eisenhower had to resign from the Army to become President, then was reinstated after his Presidency ended.
Fun FAct: The reason the US president is also commander and chief is because it was expected they would always have some degree of military background.
Rank is one thing, but majority of generals never saw combat up close and personal. John F Kennedy had shrapnel wounds during his presidency from WW2 which permantly injured his back.
Well most of them were promoted during peace time or shortly before being assigned to their armies. As a rule no military commander above platoon level should fight. The chain of command would break if the guy coordinating the men is too busy fighting rather than giving orders.
@@umu-san4414 it is accepted that Company Commanders are almost as likely to be in direct combat as Platoon Leaders, in particular Infantry, Cavalry, and Armor (Tanks); also Special Forces. Battalion Commanders might sometimes be in direct combat too, although not nearly as frequently as Company Commanders and Platoon Leaders.
@Snapdragon9600 - John Kennedy suffered from chronic lower back problems, which were congenital in nature - he was born with them; they were not the result of shrapnel or any other wound received during WWII. JFK's exploits were built up far-beyond what they actually were - by his father, a powerful king-maker on the U.S. political scene, and a man determined to see one of his sons become president of the U.S. Kennedy was originally classified as a 4F and not illegible for service due to a variety of chronic health complaints which plagued him, but he was later commissioned after the personal intervention of a family friend with connections in the Navy Department.
We had a real good run in the late 20th. JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Bush 41. I'd say we have made a good showing in the late game. When the Navy really became the tip of the spear.
Eisenhower's skill as a General is not in his ability to command and lead armies, but it his balance competing desires between the civil governments and the military, and the competing goals of different commanders under him. It is no surprise that his experience will help him greatly during his time as POTUS. Compared to balancing the competing desires of Democrats and Republicans during his time, that is nothing compared to balancing the competing desires of Patton and Montgomery, or FDR and Churchill.
@@dragonmartijn if MacArthur became president we probably would be the only country on the planet. He was very nuke happy. He got fired because he wanted to drop nuclear bombs on Korea.
Wait, they did Bush dirty wth, Jimmy Carter had no combat experience but was higher rank than bush who actually combat experience? How tf does that make sense
Carter was in the Naval Academy from 41-46, so he missed WWII. He went to nuke school to work on nuclear submarines, but transferred to the Reserves after his father died. He eventually made LT while in the Reserves. Bush was a LT junior grade, one rank down. But Carter was only a midshipman at Annapolis at the time, so Carter never outranked Bush.
How come there aren’t any presidential who serve as enlisted , possibly high as an E-7 to E-9 types or warrant officers the field expertise type the middle between enlisted and commissioned officers ? It seems that every president was prior commissioned officer instead of high ranking enlisted
Seeing how most early 19th century US presidents held senior military rank before getting elected to be a president, it seems that the US was not too different from its Latin American counterparts in terms of the tendency of military strongman politics. Except, of course, that they didn't have another superpower called United States to breathe on their neck and intervene whenever it seemed fit.
Henry Clay of Kentucky, one of the three key Senators of the early 19th century along with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and John C Calhoun of South Carolina, once wrote about his fears that Jacksonian Democracy (which involved universal white male voting) would lead to an authoritarian lean to American government where the masses would elect a "Man on Horse Back" (a military officer) over politicians because a General could command the respect of the masses more easily than a Senator. Andrew Jackson, William Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Franklin Pearce were part of this trend from the 1820s to the 1850s.
@@zico739 Not as impressive as Sharon, who was special forces even before independence, and was quite often criticized for the brutality of his military operations (from the 1940s to the 1990s).
I have to respectfully disagree with whatever system you're using to rank the presidents here. You've mixed together men who actually served in the U.S. military with men whose military service was nominal, at best. To cite only one example: You rank James Madison as a "Six," apparently by being granted rank of "colonel" in the "Orange County Militia" (his poor health, however, prevented him from actually serving). Yet you rank John Kennedy, commander of a PT boat, and Jimmy Carter, executive officer on a submarine, as "Nines," and George H.W. Bush, an aviator, a "Ten," all of them serving full terms of enlistment in the U.S. Navy... Seriously, you should check Thomas Jefferson, Wm Howard Taft, and a few others who you've ranked highly, and rethink your system so that you separate the men who actually served from those who may have had high "honorary" ranks but no real service.
Jimmy Carter medals from the navy: *American Campaign Medal, War World II Victory Medal, China Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal and the "dolphin badge".*
Sorry, Carter's dolphin badge is not a medal, rather a mark of his specialty of service, like Naval Aviator wings or paratrooper wings. Carter was a Submarine service officer, so he gets to wear the "Dolphin" insignia of submarine service.
@@georgewnewman3201 That's also why Carter was honored by the Navy when they named a Seawolf class submarine after him versus an Aircraft Carrier which would have been the custom for a President with a Navy background and the only academy grad to date.
actually if you look more closely even by the 19th century you had to have been picked by the political machine or party bosses... it's not that cut and dry. if you look at the founding fathers they're the equivalent of upper middle class or 1% background for their time. just look at george washingtons house.... don't tell me that's a working mans house.
@@cosmeticscameo8277 Yup. I mean, most of president in th XVIII and XIXth century were colonel or general... not really your average blue collar american.
@@johnwotek3816 i do know that andrew jackson was dirt poor background. he worked his way up for everything he had so i respect that. nixon grew up poor ike grew up poor harry truman grew up poor just a few examples.
Reagan had no combat experience. Yes he served during WW2 but never left the US. Bush Jr enlisted in the Air National Guard during Vietnam but was never in any danger of leaving the US.
Man I remember everyone getting on Trump's badside for his draft deferments and I'm thinking hold up, didn't we already have a pres who had deferments? Why even bother to bring this criticism up now lol🤣
@@johnkilcullen1051 no, both bush Sr and jr served by the time of The trump administration the only other president that had draft deferments was Clinton Now there are only 3 POTUS with a draft deferments, Clinton, Trump and Biden Which is why I say again why attack _any_ president over draft deferments? It's such a weak argument
@@rejvaik00 I agree. The Vietnam war was a terrible war and I don't blame any American who sought to avoid being drafted (although it was mostly those from rich and influential families who succeeded, poorer young Americans just had to go). But the way DT attacked John McCain was disgraceful. The interviewer should have pulled him up on it. As someone who never served or saw combat he had no standing whatever to denigrate anyone who did.
@@johnkilcullen1051 again I don't disagree, attacking the character of a pow just for being a pow is a scumbag move, I ain't no trump fan but I will point out all pointless criticism when it is pointless The Vietnam war could have been justified and still It wouldn't have mattered, to criticize someone over being a draft Dodger pres, when there was already a pres that was a draft Dodger
There was only a draft for the later part of the Civil War, World War One 1917-1918; then almost 2 years before Pearl Harbor the USA instituted a Draft in 1940, and continued it until 1972. Only during the Civil War could you Pay for a Replacement. It was one of the reasons for the Draft Riots in New York City in 1865
@Ragnar Ulrichson I voted for JOE Biden, and I would vote for him again. I did not, nor will I, vote for the son. Would you vote for Eric Trump knowing his political connections? Or maybe you would. That being said, go watch FOX and FOOLS that spews disinformation and propaganda that fools like you believe 🤣.
Nicely done just hopefully one day we could have some sisters on this list. I was U.S. Army 00-01. Btw all did a great job on serving our nation before becoming Commander in Chief!!!!
Shouldn't Eisenhower be the highest because he was literally the supreme commander of the Allied invasion of Europe? The guy wasn't only the leader of the US army, but also the French, Canadian and others
While the rank wasn't used at the time, George Washington is the only six star general in American history. This basically meant that he was supreme commander of the all armed forces including the navy and what would become the marines. Eisenhower was "only" a 5 star general, while also only commanding in Europe, not the entire military. Technically all us presidents are the supreme commander of the armed forced but none since Washington actually performed the role and so he keeps the title. This also means that FDR outranked Eisenhower in WW2.
@@andrewlechner6343 Pershing was awarded the rank in 1919. Washington was post- humously promoted to it in 1976. But you are correct in stating Washington is still senior to Pershing even though they have the same. Washington will ALWAYS be senior to anyone
@@mrshovelbottom7475 Yup. Plus, you get more opportunities to associate yourself with other officers. There's a reason why during the colonial period, officer promotion is part merit, part politics in of itself
True but the argument that Washington was a better president could easily be made. The main problem with Grant was his administration was rife with corruption.
@@krondarr8865 it says presidents by military rank. Also Grant is really underrated, he had the first civil rights laws and crushed the klan after already beating the confederacy. He’s an American hero for those things. The corruption was more his lack of spotting it in those around him, than his direct partaking in it
@@fredbarker9201 Oh I agree about him being underrated and I don't doubt that he was trying to improve the lot of freed slaves. He certainly was a man of his time but I don't think he was necessarily racist. I just meant that the corruption is the black mark against his administration. Every President has them including Reagan and Trump. To me it is sad that the only thing that too many people remember about Grant's presidency is the corruption but that's human nature.
@@krondarr8865 Frederick Douglas loved Ulysses S Grant, he said Grant did more for black Americans than anyone including Lincoln. And it’s hard to disagree, Lincoln was well intended but Grant brought the intentions to reality
Imagine you are teasing a E1, and a few years later he is the commander in chief
Hehe
And then you tease him as president since the Civil War broke out and he just watched
Hardly any of them saw real combat.
@@JackRed6666 the last president which saw military combat was George Bush Sr. If I remember correctly, having served in WW2 as a pilot I think he was shot down at one point 🤔
@@JackRed6666 JFK nearly drowned trying to save his men when his patrol boat was sunk by the Japanese.
from private to president. that's cool
Thanks for watching!
He was also one of the worst presidents in U.S History,
@@the4tierbridge that’s right
This is why you don’t have privates as presidents
@@LISTTV how about frankin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt went from receiving the Medal of Honor from the president to becoming the person that hands out the Medel of Honors.
Thanks for watching!
He received it posthumously though
In his life he REALLY wanted the Medal of Honor but did not get it. I didn't even know he got is posthumously, thanks for a great video!
I swear Theodore Roosevelt has to be one of the biggest chads of American history
The Spanish: We have the high ground
US: We have a Teddy Bear 😈
Teddy was a real man
The manliest man who ever manned.
Supposedly, he was also the inspiration for Batman, particularly when he was New York City Police Commissioner.
You're forgetting Lincoln is one hell of a fighter. The fucker is basically a bear in wrestling
Washington was given the General of the Armies rank posthumously in the 1970’s. Only John J. Pershing has actually held the rank while leading in the field.
unfortunately pershin never became president.
For all intensive purposes when George Washington washington was serving during the Revolutionary War he functioned as General of the armies.
General Grant was also "General of the Armies" but is ranked below Pershing, but 1st in Seniority to All 5 Star General of the Army, such as Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, etc.
Pershing was promoted to General of the Armies 3 September 1919.
@@roberthudson1959 Actually Pershing and Chief of Staff Tasker H Bliss were promoted to full General (4-star) in 1917 for the length of the emergency, Peyton C March took over as CoS in 1918 and got his 4th star, and Pershing received a permanent appointment to General of the Armies (still 4-star) when he returned to the States in 1919, so he never led men in the field as General of the Armies. The 4-star General rank was not restricted at that point (Douglas MacArthur was 4-star General in 1933 as Army chief of staff). The 5-star General of the Army was created late in WW2 (1944). Although Pershing never wore more that 4 stars in his life, in later years he wore gold stars as opposed to silver, and it was held that as CoS he could design his own uniform. 9 Army/Navy officers received 5-star pormotions by act of Congress either very late in the war or in the years after the war ended. The 9 are Gen George C. Marshall 16 December 1944, Gen Douglas MacArthur 18 December 1944, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower 20 December 1944, Gen Henry H. Arnold 21 December 1944, Gen Omar Bradley 22 September 1950, Adm William D. Leahy 15 December 1944, Adm Ernest King 17 December 1944, Adm Chester W. Nimitz 19 December 1944, and Adm William Halsey Jr. 11 December 1945.
Glad to see the put Theodore Roosevelt's Congressional Medal of Honor in there, the only US President to have been awarded it. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize. FLY NAVY!!!
Teddy hated being in the Department of the Navy so much that he quit so he could go join the Cavalry. Go Army, Beat Navy.
@@dmjohnston tbf at the time the navy wasnt anything to brag about
It's just Medal of Honor theres no congressional in the name
Go Navy beat Army!⚓️🇺🇸 Cause we all know the Navy is the branch that brings the storm!⚓️🇺🇸
@@fleet_plastic GO ARMY beat Navy. The Navy is "the taxicab" for our soldiers when it's time to fight 😁
There was a time we elected men for what they had already accomplished...not saying what they would...
Because surely being a military leader prove that you've the abilities to administrate a country
@@empereurloutre Ike did a hell of a job as President.
@@empereurloutre Well, Commander in Chief of the Armed forces is part of the presidents Job description. Also, military experience teaches skills that are very useful for bring a president.
That's why Grant was such an AmAzInG president right?
@@S3P7 but not necessary
Fun fact: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day in July 4, 1826
Thanks bro! John Adams 90 & Thomas 83. I went to search and its true.
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okay 1st, Grant was the first person to be awarded General of the Army, and he did so long before EIsenhauer which means he is and always will be senior to Ike. 2nd, Ike had very limited combat command experience, having only commanded a battalion, and at no point ever personally commanded an Army. Ike was a political and administrative General, who was necessary for commanading multiple armies, but he had absolutely no combat command at all during World War II. Grant however had Commanded a Brigade, a Division, and then a Corps(It was called an Army but later in the war would have been a Corps strengthed formation), and finally an Army during 1862, all of which was engaged in combat, during which he force an enemy Army to Surrender. In 1863 He forced another Confederate Army to Surrender on July 4 1863 on the same day meade was unable to corner and force Lee's Army to surrender. He then took over an entirely seperate Army(Army of the Cumberland) under his command along with his existing command(Army of the Tennesee) and Relieved Union Forces at Chattanooga before Complete forcing a total Confederate withdrawl from the area. At the start of 1864 Grant was Made the first Lieutenant General since George Washington, and was placed in command of all Union Armies(which would result in an entirely new rank to be created along with a suborndinate rank below him and above Lieutenant General). Grant was the ultimate Commander of Every single Soldier in the Army, something Ike never was. Also How in the fuck is Reagan, a douche who spent the entire Second World War making training films more experience than JFK who commanded a PT BOAT Squadron, and did so in combat?
I don’t think he ranked the individual presidents by combat experience, so Reagan coming before Kennedy isn’t because he’s saying he had more experience.
theyre ranked by....rank, only then by experience.
so the order is pretty much correct. id argue that eisenhower outranks washington, since he commanded more troops, but then again ww2 had multiple countries, and washington legit created a brand new one, so you could say washington is still number 1.
grant, despite having more experience, could be argued as a lower rank than eisenhower. eisenhower was the SUPREME COMMANDER of all the US forces in europe. whereas grant was certainly top brass, but not the only guy on the block, he had to share the front with other generals of equal rank.
@@joshuaespinoza8325 No that is completely incorrect. Eisenhauer was a political General who made no battlefield decisions. Grant was the Supreme Commander of All union Armies, he was the only Full General in American history to that point, Halleck was the only other four star General in the Civil War and he was the administrative head of the Army, Grant was further Granted 5 Star rank at the end of the Civil War, he was the first and until after World War One the only 5 star to hold that rank while alive.
Having military experience is a useful card when running for president in the USA.
Yes I think also. Thanks for watching and for this comment
WAS. Not anymore. Trump got a deferment from Vietnam War for a fake injury and no one cared anymore. He also called McCain a loser for being captured as a POW during Vietnam War, and cons seemed to be ok with that.
@@yackawaytube And Clinton burned his draft card and after being drafted, avoided it via connections and only came back when he got a draft number that wouldn't be selected. Joe biden also avoided the draft same way as trump, but more political connections.
obama is the best non military background president the USA can ever have
@@yackawaytube McCain was only a war hero because he was captured
LBJ's service was at best overstated. He was made a Lt. Com. right out of the gate, went on one flight that returned to base because of engine trouble was awarded a silver star for that. Ridiculous!
Same thing with W. Bush, he was in Air Guard to avoid going to Vietnam
Fun fact: Every President after GHW Bush (except Barack Obama) is a draft dodger.!
More fun fact: Every President after GHW Bush (except Trump and Biden) smoked weed or did drugs.
@@morethan3756 there were probably many that did before as well but i don’t see that as a negative
@@morethan3756 how does enlisting or in George Bush's case get commissioned be considered draft dodging? That is literally the exact opposite of dodging service lol go back to school and pay attention this time please
Reagan was Non-Deployable which means no combat experience.
Except in the movies.
He got shot, that's combat.
Well, he still technically served, so it's only fair he's on the list.
He was pretty much the WW2 equivalent to the Air Force Public Affairs Officers that run the USAF UA-cam channel.
apparntly his eye sight was so bad he was legally blind.
South American States be like : „in our countries El Presidente is always 5 star general“
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I had no idea that Abraham Lincoln had combat experience. It now makes sense that he was tactically proficient in killing all those vampires.
Fun story, despite being a God of a General, Ike never actually saw active combat.
whos ike
@@zovakxii3414 Field Marshal Dwight D Eisenhower, Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, mastermind of D-Day, and American President. Think of him as the Modern Day George Washington.
@@ryanrusch3976 oh dang thanks for replying
@Ryan Rusch Didn’t know that. In fact, I honestly wasn’t aware that possible. That shouldn’t be allowed, IMO.
If your General is swinging a sword you are doing it wrong.
1:28 Why does Nixon's picture look so fake?! XD
Hehe I think a little bit stretched vertically by the source. :)
Because Nixon was created by the Chinese in a lab
@@stephenmeier4658 makes sense china makes everything for america today
no 5 o'clock shadow
Wait, 14k views? I feel like this is the kind of video to have hundreds of thousands, good luck in the algorithm my dude!
The power of a sofa
Thanks for sharing
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Video: William Howard Taft - Major General
Me: Whoa!
Video: American Red Cross
Me: Oh....
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He was also Secretary of War from 1904-08.
Thank you for this video.
Bucharest, Roumanie
Fun fact: Willian Henry Harrison served one month as president. He refused to wear a coat during his inauguration and caught a cold and died 30 days later.
It was pneumonia I believe
@@icommentsometimes The Wikipedia article has a good discussion of (maybe) why he died.
He was one of a few presidents that died in office of illnesses during that era. Some historians have hypothesized that it was due to DC's water reservoir being horribly contaminated at that time. The presidents of that era were quite literally drinking shitwater.
General Grant absolute legend
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Fun Fact… John Tyler’s (10th US President) grandson is still alive in 2021. To put that in perspective, Tyler was born when George Washington was president. Amazing…
Can’t be the only one who found it funny that JFK was the only President to earn a Purple Heart.
(the Kennedy curse tried to warn us)
Also the only President who was 4F and had a father with political pull to up-grade it.
“Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedy’s!” -JFK
Your question made me think of something. Kennedy Sr. had two sons (I don't include Ted because he was the runt of the family). And Biden Sr. had two sons. Kennedy's oldest son served and died. Biden's oldest son served and died (not in war but you know what I mean). Both Kennedy and Biden's second oldest sons liked to fool around and get into trouble. JFK becomes president but not Hunter Biden because he chose not to run for political office. His father becomes president. What will happen to Biden Sr.?
@@DeltaEchoGolf Biden Sr is already dead. Pres Biden is J R Biden Jr. His eldest son (Beau) was J R Biden. III.
@@DeltaEchoGolf JFK had at least 4 Brothers: Joe Jr. KIA flying a B17, Robert "Bobby" , and "Teddy" I can't remember the other brother.
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Thomas Jefferson: Subscribe tag? This is ridiculus?
James Madison: Too much subs? You forgot to remove it!!
Haha! Bro old I cannot remove that on old videos. It's there already. But my new videos don't have already. :)
Now I know why Ronald Reagan became an actor
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ronald reagan looks like captain america
Yeah, you saw that too, eh? Amidst all the staid and stolid military portraits of the rest, Reagan's cocked hat and sunny smile makes for SUCH a contrast. I mean, compare his photo to that of his immediate predecessor in office!
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp Liaison Officers and Public Relations Officers always look good, that's way they are chosen. That's what Reagan did in the war.
Washington is 6-star general? Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong
In 1976, as part of commemorations for the U.S. Bicentennial, General George Washington was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. Although the law did not actually specify the number of stars, some U.S. newspapers and members of Congress described this as a "six-star rank". His appointment had been to serve as "General and Commander in Chief of the Army of the United Colonies"
@@LISTTV nice
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No Marines
I hear sad Oorah from a distance
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Of course he wasn’t a Marine, but Herbert Hoover served as a guide and assistant with the marines in China
@@freyoriole0020 Yes and he was a Quaker too.
I knew Lincoln was a soldier, but I never knew what rank he held, now I know. Plus he'd be pretty easy to spot, since he's 6'4".
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He was voted to this position which shows his abilities and charisma among the militia members.
@@kanalkanna According to the commercial that used to run (not sure what it was even advertising, maybe the National Guard), he wrestled another solider for the command position.
And then he had to wear that stovepipe hat on top of it all. At least it made a good place to keep his speech drafts.
@@alanocarlossur9440 MIlitia companies usually elected their officers back then.
Good job 👍 appreciate the list
Lyndon Johnson's combat experience consisted of ONE reconnaissanse flight over enemy territory that aborted early and returned to base. He was then given the silver star and he returned to Washington DC as a war hero. The flight crew did not get medals and were shot down an killed a few days later.
Well, they were all commander in chief...
Which is a civilian position, as proscribed in the Constitution.
Your video lists Jimmy Carter as having no combat experience, but his commendations include the American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, China Service Medal, and National Defense Service Medal. As a submarine officer off the coast of China from 1950-1952, his missions, while surely classified, would nonetheless have been in combat during the early years of the Korean War.
The cold war wasn't all that cold. Submarines are hazardous even in peace time.
That's why it's called The Silent Service.
In that case, wouldn't he be the only Korean War veteran elected?
You should make a similar list for the Roman republic, where the equivalent elected office was "consul" (2 people elected each year, which became known as the year of X and Y being consuls). Occasionally, one official was promoted to temporary emperor (imperator) for a short time.
A very good idea. Thanks for watching and for this comment! I will take note.
Mmm wouldn't Grant be ahead of Eisenhower, in a practical sense at least?
Some of these are slightly misleading. Thomas Jefferson, for example, was commissioned as an officer, but basically carried out managerial duties like a civilian. He held rank, but in a modern context would have been like GS-15. I don't believe he had any actual military training like marching or drills.
Also, Lincoln had experience as both an enlisted man and a commissioned officer, although his total time spent in the militia was pretty short.
I admire Eisenhower.
Higher the army officer rank, lower their bellicosity? That would be interesting to be seen how ready were these presidents to send us armed forces to war compared to their military rank
we know that for example ike believed that military action should be the last resort genuinely. he kept us out of all the quagmires like suz in the 1950s.
Only one enlisted man... Nothing against our officers of course but... More respect for enlisted.
This only shows the highest rank so those that were enlisted but became officers later show up as their highest officer rank.
Just because you served doesn’t mean Combat Experience, would like clarification
there are two kinds of officers in this case... staff officers and line officer. no shame in being either. someone needs to go out and fight and someone needs to make sure there is ammo for the guy doing the fighting.
Chester A Arthur as Inspector General for the New York State Militia was non-combat (staff officer), Andrew Johnson as Military Governor of Tennessee in Civil War, non-combat William Howard Taft as head of the Red Cross, non-combat. John F Kennedy as commander of a Patrol Torpedo boat (PT-109, crew of 12-15) was combat (line officer), Gerald Ford and George Bush Sr as Naval Aviators in WW2, combat, and all three saw combat qualified service (okay so Kennedy's PT-109 was rammed and sunk by IJN destroyer on one of his very first patrols, it counts especially as he was injured in the encounter).
George Washington was the best fighting man ever to hold the Presidency. His exploits during the French-Indian War and the Revolution are legendary. Washington made many strategic blunders, but under fire he was as courageous as they come. He had a habit of leading his troops in battle in front of them.
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Sorry, Washington leading his men into battle by being in front rank, that was expected of Colonels and Leftenant Colonels in the Royal Army of the time (yes, I said "Royal Army", Washington was serving at the time in the Virginia Militia which took the field under Royal Army General Braddock in that campaign), so I do not see that much extraordinary heroism in the act. That was a good way to get your officers killed at much higher rates than they should be, and that sometimes means your regiment could end up stuck out on the field being butchered if all the officers are killed first and that did happen from time to time. Point of fact, Washington would have probably been branded a coward by the RA regulars if he hadn't been in the front rank with his men.
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I believe the Royal Army was never a term applied to the British Army. Some Regiments may have had the term
Royal attached to them, but the Army as a whole was never called that. It may have had something to do with
the modern British Army being a creation of Parliament during the English Civil War era.
@@TheLAGopher I thank you for correcting my terminology, but my point remains: Washington during the Seven Years War/French & Indian War led his troop from the front as was expected of Colonels of the British Army while Generals were allowed to stay to the rear.
Washington had nothing on Grant.
joe biden was 18 years old in 1960. dodged the draft for military service in vietnam (five freaking times) because of asthma, even though he was a life guard and played football in high school and college. somehow when joe got older the asthma disappeared. amazing
Trump the degenerate was dodging STDs
but it was wrong when Trump dodged the draft....
trump had a verifiable medical condition. joe biden has asthma but you never see him use an inhaler. ever. yet he was playing football and could swim apparently if he was a lifeguard
Right? For 4 years all you heard was Cadet Bone Spurs with 4 draft deferments. But now we got Ole Popcorn Joe "Sniff'em" Biden who had 5 freaking deferments because of asthma while playing football and being a lifeguard with hairy legs, and not a freaking peep from the media about it.
The point is good, but Trump's braggadocio is what made him a target for the accusations. Claims he's the toughest at everything.
6 of our presidents experienced WW2 at some point and one experience WW1
JFK was born into a wealthy family but still joined the military :)
and none went through Vietnam, Korea, or any other war since. Last President to serve over seas in a war was G.W. Bush. funny how we are now in the longest running series of conflicts- almost like the two are connected.
@@MrChickennugget360 But presidents after have severed in the military.
@@MrChickennugget360 Vietnam nearly had 3 presidents join, but they were all black listed due to poor health
@@MrChickennugget360 GW Bush never went over seas. He actually hardly showed up for training stateside as a guardsmen either. Serving maybe 2 or 3 good years out of the 6 he was obligated to do. But when you're powerful and well connected, you get to do whatever you want with at most a slap on the wrist like Biden's coked up son who should have been sent to military prison, anybody else would have for his crimes.
from distinguished commanders to draft dodgers
quite sad. i mean clinton could've just done a stint with the air national guard even trump. could've joined the navy or something. you could actually learn some pretty nifty useful real world things in the non combat services.
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In the Vietnam era, many of the best and brightest felt that service in the Vietnam War was below them
and that the draft (and the chance of dying in combat) was ruining their chances of doing great things.
In the words of Dick Cheney "I had better things to do"
@@TheLAGopher ok... we all know any aspiring politician knows military service in the guards, etc just adds to street cred. it doesn't take away street cred... but to each their own
I think it is important for all elected leaders to have had some military background.
Interesting video. 👍 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
Thank you very much! :)
Nice to see the navy is well represented
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The Army is even better represented.
Thanks, really like this.🇺🇸
blows my mind the commander in chief in charge of all militaries doesn't require military service experience.
The U.S. Constitution demands that the U.S. military be under control of the civilian U.S. government. Many other countries have tried it the other way around, with disatrous results.
@@mph7282 I'm not familiar with that clause. do you have a reference? I assume it was added in later down in history as George Washington had a military career prior to office?
@@simunator United States Constitution Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States..."
It was extremely important to the founders that an elected, civilian government have authority and command over the use of the U.S. miliatry. This is why the President is given authority as Commander in Chief, and why the power to declare war lies with the elected Congress. Of course many Presidents had prior military experience, but President is not a military position, it is a civilian one. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who was a general in the U.S. Army, had to resign his military commission when he ran for President.
@@simunator Washington was no longer in the Army when he became President. You can't be on active duty and be President at the same time. For example, Eisenhower had to resign from the Army to become President, then was reinstated after his Presidency ended.
@@benn454 hence why I included "experience" in the OC?
So Bush is the last President who have had any military experience
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Trump?
@@chatscatman_1570 no trump draft dodged 5 times
@@chatscatman_1570 draft dodger
Ayyo, he said any military experience, i think that counts
I found this video by search because I wanted to watch it.
Fun FAct: The reason the US president is also commander and chief is because it was expected they would always have some degree of military background.
Harry Truman was awarded the Medal of Honor
Truman actually had to cheat in his eye exam just so he can be accepted into the Army where he would serve as an artilleryman during WW1.
Rank is one thing, but majority of generals never saw combat up close and personal. John F Kennedy had shrapnel wounds during his presidency from WW2 which permantly injured his back.
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Well most of them were promoted during peace time or shortly before being assigned to their armies. As a rule no military commander above platoon level should fight. The chain of command would break if the guy coordinating the men is too busy fighting rather than giving orders.
@@umu-san4414 it is accepted that Company Commanders are almost as likely to be in direct combat as Platoon Leaders, in particular Infantry, Cavalry, and Armor (Tanks); also Special Forces.
Battalion Commanders might sometimes be in direct combat too, although not nearly as frequently as Company Commanders and Platoon Leaders.
@Snapdragon9600 - John Kennedy suffered from chronic lower back problems, which were congenital in nature - he was born with them; they were not the result of shrapnel or any other wound received during WWII. JFK's exploits were built up far-beyond what they actually were - by his father, a powerful king-maker on the U.S. political scene, and a man determined to see one of his sons become president of the U.S. Kennedy was originally classified as a 4F and not illegible for service due to a variety of chronic health complaints which plagued him, but he was later commissioned after the personal intervention of a family friend with connections in the Navy Department.
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 Veteran status was almost necessary in politics then. Otherwise, Joe Kennedy was not a big fan of the war.
We need more Navy up on that list!!!🙂⚓
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We had a real good run in the late 20th. JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Bush 41. I'd say we have made a good showing in the late game. When the Navy really became the tip of the spear.
Washington flexing his supremacy 😁😂😅😅😁😅😂😁
Plot Twist: FDR wasn't allowed to serve in the army.
If you're paralyzed from the waist down by polio, you're definitely not capable of performing military service.
He ran the Navy as a civilian in WWI and was asked not to go active duty.
Dwight Eisenhower had _combat_ experience?
He was the general commander of the European western front. That counts.
Eisenhower's skill as a General is not in his ability to command and lead armies, but it his balance competing desires between the civil governments and the military, and the competing goals of different commanders under him.
It is no surprise that his experience will help him greatly during his time as POTUS. Compared to balancing the competing desires of Democrats and Republicans during his time, that is nothing compared to balancing the competing desires of Patton and Montgomery, or FDR and Churchill.
It's always bothered me a little that there never was a Korean or Vietnam War veteran as president.
The closest we got was John McCain
Missed your chance with John McCain, Alexander Haig, and Wesley Clark, all Vietnam vets who all ran at various times and lost.
@@breslinhoward6992 And Kerry in 2004. Interesting that we had 8 WWII vets as president. An unbroken string from Ike to GHW Bush.
If MacArthur became president...
@@dragonmartijn if MacArthur became president we probably would be the only country on the planet.
He was very nuke happy.
He got fired because he wanted to drop nuclear bombs on Korea.
Eisenhower never saw any combat
Wait, they did Bush dirty wth, Jimmy Carter had no combat experience but was higher rank than bush who actually combat experience? How tf does that make sense
Carter was in the Naval Academy from 41-46, so he missed WWII. He went to nuke school to work on nuclear submarines, but transferred to the Reserves after his father died. He eventually made LT while in the Reserves.
Bush was a LT junior grade, one rank down. But Carter was only a midshipman at Annapolis at the time, so Carter never outranked Bush.
How come there aren’t any presidential who serve as enlisted , possibly high as an E-7 to E-9 types or warrant officers the field expertise type the middle between enlisted and commissioned officers ? It seems that every president was prior commissioned officer instead of high ranking enlisted
President Truman looks like such a goddamm Chad in that photo.
Seeing how most early 19th century US presidents held senior military rank before getting elected to be a president, it seems that the US was not too different from its Latin American counterparts in terms of the tendency of military strongman politics.
Except, of course, that they didn't have another superpower called United States to breathe on their neck and intervene whenever it seemed fit.
Henry Clay of Kentucky, one of the three key Senators of the early 19th century along with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and John C Calhoun of South Carolina, once wrote about his fears that Jacksonian Democracy
(which involved universal white male voting) would lead to an authoritarian lean to American government where
the masses would elect a "Man on Horse Back" (a military officer) over politicians because a General could command
the respect of the masses more easily than a Senator.
Andrew Jackson, William Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Franklin Pearce were part of this trend from the 1820s
to the 1850s.
Yeah they did they had the current US predident while they were in the military except washinton how hjad parliment then congress
Husni Mubarak was pilot in the Egyptian Israeli war 6 day war for Egypt.
Netanyahu was in the special forces of Israel .
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Yeah, I don’t like Netanyahu much but his background is extremely impressive.
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@@zico739 Not as impressive as Sharon, who was special forces even before independence, and was quite often criticized for the brutality of his military operations (from the 1940s to the 1990s).
I have to respectfully disagree with whatever system you're using to rank the presidents here. You've mixed together men who actually served in the U.S. military with men whose military service was nominal, at best. To cite only one example: You rank James Madison as a "Six," apparently by being granted rank of "colonel" in the "Orange County Militia" (his poor health, however, prevented him from actually serving). Yet you rank John Kennedy, commander of a PT boat, and Jimmy Carter, executive officer on a submarine, as "Nines," and George H.W. Bush, an aviator, a "Ten," all of them serving full terms of enlistment in the U.S. Navy... Seriously, you should check Thomas Jefferson, Wm Howard Taft, and a few others who you've ranked highly, and rethink your system so that you separate the men who actually served from those who may have had high "honorary" ranks but no real service.
Video shows formal ranks according to official military records, however deserved or undeserved. Even the rank numbers are official.
Jimmy Carter medals from the navy: *American Campaign Medal, War World II Victory Medal, China Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal and the "dolphin badge".*
Sorry, Carter's dolphin badge is not a medal, rather a mark of his specialty of service, like Naval Aviator wings or paratrooper wings. Carter was a Submarine service officer, so he gets to wear the "Dolphin" insignia of submarine service.
@@georgewnewman3201 Thanks for the information.
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That's also why Carter was honored by the Navy when they named a Seawolf class submarine after him
versus an Aircraft Carrier which would have been the custom for a President with a Navy background and
the only academy grad to date.
*Please give a Oscar Nomination to this guy!!! He knows everything about US politics.*
Hahaha!
Is George Washington rank above a 5 star general tho?
Yes he is above all generals
Generalissimus
Back then ordinary citizens and soldiers could run for prez. Now it's all rich do goodes.
actually if you look more closely even by the 19th century you had to have been picked by the political machine or party bosses... it's not that cut and dry. if you look at the founding fathers they're the equivalent of upper middle class or 1% background for their time. just look at george washingtons house.... don't tell me that's a working mans house.
@@cosmeticscameo8277 Yup. I mean, most of president in th XVIII and XIXth century were colonel or general... not really your average blue collar american.
@@johnwotek3816 i do know that andrew jackson was dirt poor background. he worked his way up for everything he had so i respect that.
nixon grew up poor
ike grew up poor
harry truman grew up poor
just a few examples.
Don't forget Trump, he went to Military College and dodged the draft in Vietnam.
Biden got 5 deferments. Clinton got many as well. So what exactly is your point?
@@danielmcgillis270 Trump likes to shoot off his macho mouth.
If we had a Vietnam veteran (excluding John McCain) for President, Iraq and Afganistán would have never happened
We had a WWII combat Naval pilot President, who was smart enough to avoid getting stuck in Iraq and the Mid East, unlike his son.
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You made a mistake. Ronald Reagan was a US Army Cavalry Officer not Air Corps. Look at his branch insigna on his uniform.
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Zachary Taylor when he’s was a kid thats a fake one but you try your best i hope you do great
Thanks bro I will try to find a real one. XD
Truman was a Captain, not an O-6!
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I believe that Truman was a Captain in Combat in WWI, and was promoted while in the Reserves in the 1920's and 30's
Reagan had no combat experience. Yes he served during WW2 but never left the US. Bush Jr enlisted in the Air National Guard during Vietnam but was never in any danger of leaving the US.
Man I remember everyone getting on Trump's badside for his draft deferments and I'm thinking hold up, didn't we already have a pres who had deferments?
Why even bother to bring this criticism up now lol🤣
Trump was criticised in the media for having 2 scoops of ice cream. He was never going to get anything resembling fair coverage.
If you are referring to GW Bush, at least he never denigrated a person who had served (and suffered).
@@johnkilcullen1051 no, both bush Sr and jr served by the time of The trump administration the only other president that had draft deferments was Clinton
Now there are only 3 POTUS with a draft deferments, Clinton, Trump and Biden
Which is why I say again why attack _any_ president over draft deferments? It's such a weak argument
@@rejvaik00 I agree. The Vietnam war was a terrible war and I don't blame any American who sought to avoid being drafted (although it was mostly those from rich and influential families who succeeded, poorer young Americans just had to go). But the way DT attacked John McCain was disgraceful. The interviewer should have pulled him up on it. As someone who never served or saw combat he had no standing whatever to denigrate anyone who did.
@@johnkilcullen1051 again I don't disagree, attacking the character of a pow just for being a pow is a scumbag move, I ain't no trump fan but I will point out all pointless criticism when it is pointless
The Vietnam war could have been justified and still It wouldn't have mattered, to criticize someone over being a draft Dodger pres, when there was already a pres that was a draft Dodger
So back in the day when you got drafted you could slap down $150 and be like nah send someone else lol that’s kinda funny
There was only a draft for the later part of the Civil War, World War One 1917-1918; then almost 2 years before Pearl Harbor the USA instituted a Draft in 1940, and continued it until 1972.
Only during the Civil War could you Pay for a Replacement. It was one of the reasons for the Draft Riots in New York City in 1865
@@paladinsix9285 The Irish couldn't come up with the cash.
That’s not George Washington! That’s Robert DeNiro!
What!? No Donald Trump? Daddy bought his deferments.
@Ragnar Ulrichson I voted for JOE Biden, and I would vote for him again. I did not, nor will I, vote for the son. Would you vote for Eric Trump knowing his political connections? Or maybe you would. That being said, go watch FOX and FOOLS that spews disinformation and propaganda that fools like you believe 🤣.
Nicely done just hopefully one day we could have some sisters on this list. I was U.S. Army 00-01. Btw all did a great job on serving our nation before becoming Commander in Chief!!!!
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Man. William howard taft is so high. How?
The US NAVY just kicked ass in the 20th century. JFK, LBJ, Carter, Nixon, and Bush 41. that is a hell of a run.
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But what's there confirmed kill #?
Shouldn't Eisenhower be the highest because he was literally the supreme commander of the Allied invasion of Europe? The guy wasn't only the leader of the US army, but also the French, Canadian and others
While the rank wasn't used at the time, George Washington is the only six star general in American history. This basically meant that he was supreme commander of the all armed forces including the navy and what would become the marines. Eisenhower was "only" a 5 star general, while also only commanding in Europe, not the entire military. Technically all us presidents are the supreme commander of the armed forced but none since Washington actually performed the role and so he keeps the title. This also means that FDR outranked Eisenhower in WW2.
@@andrewlechner6343 You forgot Pershing who was also General of the Armies. Though Washington is senior to him even though they have the same rank.
@@RuruFIN Washington was first and so keeps the record, but thank you for reminding me about Pershing. WW1 isn't my biggest area of interest.
@@andrewlechner6343 Pershing was awarded the rank in 1919. Washington was post- humously promoted to it in 1976. But you are correct in stating Washington is still senior to Pershing even though they have the same. Washington will ALWAYS be senior to anyone
@@andrewlechner6343 The British King was top officer in most or every Empire forces despite what Eisenhower might have thought.
Jimmy Carter commanded a "Boomer". Doesn't say that.
Dwight D. Eisenhower being a giga chad as usual.
But I mean Roosevelt tho, damn.
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Which Roosevelt? Theodore?
WAIT A MINTE THAT IS NOT THE PICTURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
INSTEAD IT IS THE PICTURE OF JOHN POL JONES
No
What’s up with Presidents and going Navy Reserve?
I didnt know so many presidents fought in ww2....
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Thank you, for teaching
Virtually every president from 1953-1993, 40 straight years of World War II veterans!
Interesting how pretty much only officers can seem to become president
LOL!
Ronald Reagan did NOT have any combat experience.
He never left the states during WWII.
Song?
Barely any enlisted rank other than the one before the Civil War.
Officers are given more chances to engage in politics/administration duties I guess
@@mrshovelbottom7475 Yup. Plus, you get more opportunities to associate yourself with other officers. There's a reason why during the colonial period, officer promotion is part merit, part politics in of itself
McKinley actually enlisted as a private I
...but was given a battlefield commission after his heroic service at Antietam.
@@TPTGopher promotion to Brevet Major.
WOW Buchanan was a freaking E-1!!!
What music is this?
Semper Fidelis
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Grant is better general than Washington who actually lost more battles than he won
True but the argument that Washington was a better president could easily be made. The main problem with Grant was his administration was rife with corruption.
@@krondarr8865 it says presidents by military rank. Also Grant is really underrated, he had the first civil rights laws and crushed the klan after already beating the confederacy. He’s an American hero for those things. The corruption was more his lack of spotting it in those around him, than his direct partaking in it
@@fredbarker9201 Oh I agree about him being underrated and I don't doubt that he was trying to improve the lot of freed slaves. He certainly was a man of his time but I don't think he was necessarily racist. I just meant that the corruption is the black mark against his administration. Every President has them including Reagan and Trump. To me it is sad that the only thing that too many people remember about Grant's presidency is the corruption but that's human nature.
@@krondarr8865 Frederick Douglas loved Ulysses S Grant, he said Grant did more for black Americans than anyone including Lincoln. And it’s hard to disagree, Lincoln was well intended but Grant brought the intentions to reality
@@fredbarker9201 No argument on my part.
Hoover - being a civilian scout in a combat zone doesn't count?
Zachary Taylor was badass!
I love Ike