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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

His "powerful friends" got him into a unit to learn to fly a plane that had
already been decommissioned.  He only trained on the one plane.  When his
physical came due they were training on a new plane and folks that could fly
it were being sent over to Vietnam.  No physical, no flight time, no going
to Vietnam.

Follow the dots or the money or the coward.  Take your choice they all
arrive at the same destination, no going to Vietnam.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
> >
> tvoivozhd---I don't look at television other than weather reports and
> science channels, so have no reaction to programs like Sixty Minutes, or
> to what other program Chicago News referred.  But thanks to Freedom Of
> Information, the Government has provided the military documents it has
> in file---these all verify that Bush got into the National Guard over a
> host of less politically powerful applicants (a most suspicious event,
> though intervention of the powerful is not necessarily a crime), and
> they verify what in my military service what would be called dereliction
> of duty and a court martial offense in failing to take his physical to
> stay qualified for flight duty.  There is some speculation that the F105
> was obsolescent and therefore staying qualified for flight should not be
> required---now THAT is complete bullshit---planes constantly become
> obsolete, are replaced with improved versions, and ALL active duty or
> reserve pilots are trained on them as long as they fulfill their
> physical exam requirement, which they damn well better do or get
> court-martialed and dishonorably discharged.