Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s Son, Discharged From Navy for Cocaine Use: Report

L-R: Former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden, at a college basketball game in Washington on Jan. 30, 2010. (Nick Wass/AP Photo)

Hunter Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden, was discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine, a new report says.

Biden, a lawyer who is now a managing partner at an investment company, had been commissioned to the part-time position in the reserve of an ensign.

But the test ended his military career earlier this year, reported the Wall Street Journal on October 16.

The report cites “people familiar with the matter.”

Biden, 44, had trouble even getting into the service because he needed a waiver just to join the Navy due to his age, and another waiver due to a drug-related incident from when he was younger.

In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo Hunter Biden waits for the start of the his father's, Vice President Joe Biden's, debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. Vice President Biden’s trip to Ukraine this weekend, June 7-8, 2014, to support that nation’s fragile democracy came weeks after his youngest son, Hunter, 44, was hired by a private Ukrainian company that promotes energy independence from Russia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

 

 

He was commissioned as an ensign on May 7, 2013. But the drug test in June turned up positive for cocaine. He was discharged in February 2014.

Biden said in a statement that it was “the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy’s decision. With the love and support of my family, I’m moving forward.”