The navy reserve discharged vice president joe biden s son hunter this year after he tested positive for cocaine u s. He stopped short of saying there was a firm or scientifically. Joe biden has brought up his son s military service in iraq and questioned whether it could have played a role in his fatal illness.
A handful of times biden detailed how he thinks his son s cancer may have been related in part to the large military base burn pits during his 2009 service in the iraq war. And he didn t have a traditional military experience in the navy before that. Hunter biden was discharged in october 2014.
A 2014 report about joe biden s son hunter biden being discharged from the navy for a failed drug test resurfaced in 2018. Beau biden who died may 30 of brain cancer deployed to iraq as a captain in the army national guard just as his dad joe biden was running for vice president in 2008. Joe biden invokes his late son s military service as he suggests trump unfit to be president over russia claims and if he was briefed and didn t do anything that s a dereliction of duty.
On december 18 1972 biden s mother neilia and younger sister naomi were killed in an automobile accident while christmas shopping. Senator and vice president joe biden and his first wife neilia née hunter. Biden was born in wilmington delaware the elder son of former u s.
