deferments

He later sat out the Vietnam War due to deferments - four for academic reasons and one due to bone spurs.

Trump never served in the military, and a string of deferments enabled him to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War.

After graduating high school from the New York Military Academy in 1964, he received four education deferments to attend college.

Even though neither major party nominee for president has a military background — one of them avoided service through a series of deferments and a claimed bone-spurs disability — and U.S. armed forces are not currently involved in any ground wars, military matters are playing an outsized role in this year’s election.

It drew attention to his draft-dodging record of five deferments at the height of the Vietnam War.