thanks
from ABC News:
During the Vietnam War, when Cheney was draft-eligible, he received deferments as a student, and then as a registrant with a child.
“I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service,” Cheney told a reporter in 1989, according to the Washington Post. However, in his Senate confirmation hearing, Cheney said he “would have been obviously happy to serve had I been called.”
That's all I needed to hear.