John Kerry stays in the Navy

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Despite being a staunch antiwar critic of Vietnam and the Iraq War, John Kerry was quite involved in the US Navy after graduation from college, serving in combat in Vietnam, which was the main reason he came to disagree with the war, and rising to the rank of lieutenant.

Suppose that instead of going into politics, what might have happened had Kerry decided to renew is commission and remain a naval officer, trying to change things within the military itself. Not so much making the policy, so much as figuring out how best to carry out that policy.

Instead of Senator or Congressman or presidential candidate Kerry, maybe have him as an Admiral or Secretary of the Navy or somesuch.
 
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