Ted Nugent: at the NRA, a Braveheart poseur; at his army induction physical, a draft-evading stinkbomb

Update: Draft-dodging, deadbeat dad Ted Nugent will be coming to the Omaha, NE Hilton to campaign for State Senator Colby Coash on May 10th.

Nugent's recent proclamation at an NRA convention that "We are Braveheart" and his not-so-veiled threats on President Obama might lead one to believe that Nugent isn't afraid to shoot at things that shoot back.
     When he had that opportunity, however, he ran the other way, using one of the techniques Bruce Springsteen and others did to avoid the draft: not bathing for a very long time.
     Unlike Nugent, Springsteen has said repeatedly that he isn't proud of what he did.
     But except for a recanted confession to High Times magazine, and an interview in the Detroit Free Press, Nugent has avoided acknowledging his draft avoidance.
     From Wikipedia (footnote numbers deleted):

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In 2006, an interviewer from the British newspaper The Independent questioned Nugent about a 1977 interview in High Times magazine in which Nugent allegedly detailed elaborate steps taken to avoid the Vietnam draft. In the interview Nugent says, contrary to the story in High Times, that "I had a 1Y [student deferment]. I enrolled at Oakland Community College.". However, the Selective Service classification for student deferment is actually 2-S, and medical deferment is 1-Y. A copy of Nugent's Selective Service record shows that he had at separate times both a 1-Y medical deferment and 2-S student deferment.

More from Wikipedia about Nugent:

He has had two wives and has eight children, including three out of wedlock in two liaisons almost 30 years apart. In the late 1960s, prior to his first marriage, Nugent fathered a boy, Ted (Mann) and a girl, whom he gave up for adoption in infancy. This did not become public knowledge until 2010. The siblings were adopted separately and had no contact with one another. The son learned the identity of his birth father in 2010 through the daughter's quest to make contact with him and their birth parents. According to a news report, Nugent over the years had discussed the existence of these children with his other children.
     In 2005 Nugent was involved in a legal battle for not paying enough child support for a child he had out of wedlock in 1995. It was finally resolved when Nugent was ordered to pay $3,500 in child support.
     He was married to his first wife, Sandra Jezowski, from 1970 to 1979. They had three children, son Theodore Tobias "Toby" Nugent, and daughters Sasha and Starr Nugent. Sandra died in a car crash in 1982. His second marriage was to Shemane Deziel, whom he met while a guest on Detroit's WLLZ-FM, where she was a member of the news staff. They married on January 21, 1989. Together they have two children, son Rocco Winchester Nugent, and daughter Chantal Nugent.
    In 1978, Nugent began a relationship with seventeen-year-old Hawaii native Pele Massa. Due to the age difference they could not marry so Nugent joined Massa's parents in signing documents to make himself her legal guardian, an arrangement that Spin magazine ranked in October 2000 as #63 on their list of the "100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock."