Let's face it. Pretend military service is the best any candidate of either party has to offer. Personally, I'd like to see *any* type of national service - military, americorps, peace corps - be a prerequisite to being Commander in Chief.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/9/8/1419373/-Trump-always-felt-that-I-was-in-the-military-when-he-was-at-military-themed-boarding-school
" ..... Mr. Trump said that his experience at the New York Military Academy, an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/07/ronald_reagans_wartime_lies_the_president_had_quite_a_brian_williams_problem/
" ..... During Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s November 1983 visit to the U.S., Reagan told Shamir that during his service in the U.S. Army film corps, he and fellow members of his unit personally shot footage of the Nazis’ concentration camps as they were liberated. Reagan would tell this story again to others, including Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal. But Reagan was never present at the camps’ liberation. Instead, he spent the war in Culver City, California, where he processed footage from the liberation of the camps."