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A recurring complaint made by Army generals in WWII was that the then glamourous Navy was poaching all the highest quality men and they were left with the cretins. As a sample of the best, consider US presidents: JFK, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Bush all served in the Navy.
The old aristocratic prestige of naval officers seems strange now, I think largely because war movies have made more exciting, face to face killing seem so much more prestigious. Of all Pres candidates since the war only Dole was a genuine blood and guts infantry hero.
Isn’t it more that the Falklands War showed that modern naval combat will be a half-hour long with everyone dead?
The mortality rate on WWII ships were also disastrous and deaths hellish, so I doubt it. I really think it's movies: Tom Hank's Greyhound is a rare recent example of a conventional naval officer portrayed heroically. Submariners with their piratical vibe are still sexy.
surely eisenhower counts
When Eisenhower left high school his first choice was the attend the Naval Academy, but there were no slots left in his congressional district so he went the Army instead
I don’t know if he would make the cutoff as a “serious” candidate, but I believe Jim Webb was also wounded in combat too.
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