President Trump visited a combat zone for the first time on Wednesday.

On the same day, a New York Times report raised questions about the bone-spur diagnosis that helped Trump avoid military service during the Vietnam War.

Bone spurs can be painful, but are often treated with pain-relievers like Advil or Tylenol.

President Trump just got his first glimpse of life in a combat zone.

"President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted on Wednesday.

This marks Trump's first-ever visit to a war zone. As President, he had not previously visited a combat zone for Christmas — a traditional presidential activity during the holidays.

"He’s afraid of those situations," a former senior White House official recently toldthe Washington Post. "He’s afraid people want to kill him."

The visit occurred on the same day that a New York Times report raised new questions about the bone-spur diagnosis that helped Trump avoid fighting in the Vietnam War.

Trump, who graduated from the New York Military Academy boarding school, received four Vietnam War draft deferments for education during college. Then after he finished school, he received a medical exemption for bone spurs, which kept him from being eligible for the draft.

"I had a minor medical deferment for feet, for a bone spur of the foot, which was minor," Trump told ABC News in 2015 during his presidential campaign. "I was fortunate, in a sense, because I was not a believer in the Vietnam War."

According to the Times, the daughter