Al Gore was not a combat veteran... he was an Army journalist- he still chose to serve and was deployed to Vietnam when his father could hav egotten him out of either so he has my respect...but he is not a combat veteran
Just curious, but how do you define "combat veteran"? Sure, he was a journalist in an engineering brigade, but while he never shot at hostiles he still carried a rifle in a combat zone, and often went out into the field; he didn't just stay in his office writing newspaper articles.