[Rhodes22-list] Bush's Service Record

[Rik Sandberg]

Hey Brad,

Good to see you again. :-)

Rik

brad haslett wrote:

>OK boys and girls, I just sent Ed Kroposki an e-mail a
>few days ago explaining why I didn't want to rejoin
>the list but I've been following the thread anyway and
>I just can't take it anymore.  You're talking bad
>about my man W and some things just need to be said.
>
>Hello old friends!
>
>I never spent a single day in the service but I've
>been working in a para-military organization for
>twenty years with over 80% of my co-workers
>ex-military and about 30% currently in the national
>guard or reserve.  
>
>Here's the poop (and my spin) on guard pilots.  Some
>join to keep scoring points to retirement after
>leaving active service, while others make an almost
>full time job out of it, and some airline pilots use
>it as a back-up to protect themselves from a cyclical
>industry (like post 9/11).  Guard members are required
>to earn a minimum number of points per year to meet
>their requirements and have a great deal of leeway,
>within limits, about the spacing of their appearances.
> When the manning requirements are light the "guard
>bums", guys who are basically making a full time job
>of it, do the heaving lifting while those looking for
>minimum participation participate minmaly.
>
>During the Vietnam era, Guard or reserve duty was a
>way of postponing or better yet, avoiding a trip to
>the jungle.  That is precisely why John Kerry joined
>the Navy reserves after his draft board refused his
>request for a student referral to study in Paris for a
>year.  At the time Kerry volunteered for swift-boat
>duty, swift boats were considered "safe" duty.  That
>changed later on but I digress.
>
>Bush flew an F102 which was a very "nasty" airplane
>without being shot at.  In the 1971-72 time frame,
>Vietnam was winding down and there was a surplus of
>pilots in the Air Force.  Any Guard unit could get all
>the missions completed they needed with returning
>Vietnam pilots and those desiring minimum flying
>(perhaps Bush) could do so.
>
>I'm attaching part of an e-mail that a friend from
>work sent me yesterday.  I can promise you I've done
>my homework on the above statements but can only trust
>in the accuracy of the following.  It comes from
>someone I've known and trusted for 20 years and based
>on my relationship with the source, I give it a 99.99%
>confidence rating.
>
>---------------------------------------------
>
> Hopefully by now you have all heard about this story.
> Facing 
>plummeting
>  
>
>>poll numbers, the Kerry campaign decided to revisit
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>the Bush-National
>Guard
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>>records.  In previous months, Kerry's people had
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>tried to drum up a 
>story
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>>about this.  ALL of the evidence shows that Bush
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>completed more than 
>6
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>>years worth of service (not night and weekend stuff
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>but FULL TIME 
>service)
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>>in the Guard in less than 6 years.  He served
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>overtime for four years
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>>before he asked to take some time off to run a
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>campaign.  The 
>majority of
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>>his records showed him to be an above average pilot
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>and an average
>student.
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>>He later pursued an advanced business degree after
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>receiving an 
>honorable
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>>discharge from service.
>>
>>Kerry has been trying to make an issue out of a
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>missed physical and
>dentist
>  
>
>>appointment.  No one cared.  It backfired.  Then
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>came the big bounce 
>in
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>>Bush's poll numbers.  Kerry, in desperation, went
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>back to Guard 
>records.
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>>By this time, the story has been tried at least 4
>>    
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>times on the 
>American
>  
>
>>voting public.  But the press was more than willing
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>to go along again 
>if
>it
>  
>
>>could help Kerry
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>Hope that clears it up for you.  (YEAH RIGHT!)
>
>Brad Haslett
>"CorsShen"
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