Jack Trapper at ABC News notes the history of Hillary Clinton’s marine recruiting story.

Clinton recalled that she didn’t know if she wanted to be active duty, reserves, or National Guard. She was already a lawyer; surely there was a role she could perform. The Marine recruiter looked at her, she recalled, and asked how old she was. Twenty-seven, she said.

“He looked at me, and in those days that was before I learned how to wear contact lenses,” Clinton said. “I had these really thick glasses on. He said, ‘How bad’s your eyesight?’ I said, ‘It’s pretty bad.’ …Finally said to me, he said, ‘You’re too old. You can’t see. And you’re a woman.…But maybe the dogs would take you.’”

(”Dogs” would be a pejorative reference to the Army.)

Clinton continued, “I said, ‘This is not a very encouraging conversation, so maybe I’ll look for another way to serve my country.’”

Trapper noted:

That seems an odd pronouncement for the recruiter to have made, considering that at the time, according to A History of the Women Marines, female Marines who became pregnant were permitted to remain on active service, as this photograph attests. And I believe the military had a few recruiting problems back in the 1970s — hence their abject rejection of a brainy lawyer wouldn’t make much sense. (Then again, ask a soldier how often Pentagon rules “make sense.”)

Maureen Dowd at the New York Times had looked into the story at the time and found little evidence that it occurred, meanwhile Clinton hasn’t raised the story since telling it in 1994.

Clinton has of course noted that she wanted to be an astronaut repeatedly on the campaign trail and honestly the story sounds almost exactly the same. Clinton wanted to do something women couldn’t, she inquired, was rejected, did something else. It would normally be entirely plausible but at this point, with her so blatantly making false claims about Bosnia, who knows.