WASHINGTON - Vice President Biden's youngest son was discharged from the Navy Reserve this year after testing positive for cocaine, according to a report Thursday.
Hunter Biden, 44, who works for an investment company, failed the drug test after he reported to a Norfolk, Va. reserve unit last year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing 'people familiar with the matter.'
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,' Hunter Biden said in a statement.
'I respect the Navy's decision. With the love and support of my family, I'm moving forward.'
Biden began the process for joining the Navy Reserves in 2012. He was commissioned as an ensign in 2013 and assigned to a public affairs unit Norfolk.
After reporting to the unit in June 2013, he was given the drug test, and failed it, the Wall Street Journal said. Biden was then discharged in February 2014.
The Navy declined to comment on the reason for Biden's discharge. Navy personnel who are discharged because of failing a drug are not given honorable discharges. Most receive an 'other than honorable' or 'general' discharge.
'It isn't clear which discharge Mr. Biden received,' the Journal reported.
In joining the Navy Reserve, Biden received a wavier due a 'drug-related incident when he was a young man,' the paper reported.
A spokeswoman for Vice President Biden, who is widely believed to be considering a 2016 presidential bid, declined to comment.
The Veep has publicly cited Hunter Biden's Navy position, telling an American Legion gathering in 2013, 'My son, who is over 40, just joined the United States Navy. He's about to be sworn in as an officer, Hunter Biden.'
Hunter Biden, who is married with three children, is the younger of the Vice President's two sons.
The older son, Beau Biden, Delaware's attorney general, is expected to run for governor in the state.
Joe Biden and his wife Jill also have a daughter, Ashley, who joined the Delaware Center for Justice in 2012 as associate executive director.
A member of the extended Biden clan, the Vice President's niece Caroline Biden, was arrested last year in Manhattan for assaulting a cop and refusing arrest after dispute with a roommate over rent.
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