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Tony · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:06 am Post subject:

So you are claiming that President Bush served 38 days beyond his last FITREP and never received a final FITREP. I'm sorry - enlighten me on why this is a noteworthy fact if true. The same rules and regulations also stipulate that drilling reservists are paid, yet I have a shipmate who served a year in the reserves after completing his obligated active duty service but was never paid due to a series of compounded admin errors (hard to believe - isn't it - an admin error in the military).

We all know that George Bush served in the military, but we can only speculate how good an airman he really was. In my opinion, he probably liked strapping on a jet but at the time, didn't yet have enough direction or maturity to plot out his military career with an eye to political viability like some other candidates might have been doing. Fortunately - the young GW Bush matured and later proved as CINC that he has what it takes. Some of the other candiates proved what they are all about as well, and dishonoring your shipmates by accusing them of war crimes is pretty low in my book.

As for leaving flight status - I've had buddies who missed a few night traps in the Indian Ocean which put them in immediate touch with their mortality and led them to the conclusion that maybe they needed to do something else for awhile or forever. Who really knows...I don't think any less of them regardless of their motivation, since at the end of the day, they served honorably.... and that is what counts.
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