| Other presidents who've served in the military: James Monroe (Army major), John Tyler (Virginia state militia), Millard Fillmore (New York state militia), James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln (Illinois state militia), William McKinley (Army brevet major), Theodore Roosevelt (Army colonel), Harry Truman (Army major), John Kennedy (Navy lieutenant), Lyndon Johnson (Navy lieutenant commander), Richard Nixon (Navy lieutenant commander), Gerald Ford (Navy lieutenant commander), Jimmy Carter (Navy lieutenant), Ronald Reagan (Army Air Force captain), George Bush (Navy lieutenant), George W. Bush (Texas Air National Guard). |