U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham sworn in as Air Force judge

AP via The State (SC Newspaper) ^ | 11/5/03 | AP

[wimpycat]

COLUMBIA, S.C. - U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has been sworn in as a reserve appellate military judge on the U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals.

Graham is the only member of the U.S. Senate to serve in either a guard or reserve unit. He holds the rank of lieutenant colonel.

The court of criminal appeals is the highest judicial body within the Air Force. The court reviews and hears appeals of convictions by court-martial within the Air Force.

"It is a great honor and privilege to have been selected to serve on the Air Force Criminal Court of Appeals," Graham said. "Over the past twenty years, the fine men and women of the United States Air Force have had a great impact on my life and I am excited about the opportunity to continue my service in this capacity."

Graham joined the U.S. Air Force in 1982 and was assigned as an assistant staff judge advocate at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter. He was selected in 1983 to be the area defense counsel at Shaw, where he served one year.

He then served as a circuit trial counsel and was transferred to the Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. Graham left active duty in 1988, established a private law practice and began serving in the South Carolina Air National Guard.

After Graham was elected to Congress in 1995, he joined the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

[dwd1]

McCain gets along with everyone except Jane Fonda...

[wimpycat]

Whew, I'm not as bad off as I thought, LOL! I thought it might be Fritz Hollings. And I just noticed there were some more pictures. Good job!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Some of the pics are blurry because I was so nervous/excited that I was shaking!

[autoresponder]

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[wimpycat]

I shook Bob Dole's hand at the NC State Fair last year. And I didn't have my camera with me. He's not as tall as I thought, but he's still Bob Dole, LOL!

[NYC GOP Chick]

I actually *forgot* that I had a camera with me when I met George W. Bush back in the summer of 2000!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Oh, and I suppose I could have tried to meet Lindsey Graham, but I had on absolutely NO makeup whatsoever and was having a bad hair day, so I felt too shy.

[wimpycat]

LOL!

I don't have anything to match that one. A few years ago I met our then-Governor Jim Hunt (D) at a groundbreaking ceremony. He sure knows how to hobnob with people, except when he tried to contradict me. He'd been telling a story about stringing tobacco when he was a boy, and so I told him my mom used to do that when she was a little girl, and when he asked where she was from, and I told him, he said they didn't have tobacco farms in Brunswick Co. As if my mom was a liar or something, LOL!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thanks, NYC GOP Chick. LOL! In that first photo of him, he's a real looker, isn't he? What are you trying to do, discourage me?!

[NYC GOP Chick]

What a doofus he is!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Discourage you from what?

[Donna Lee Nardo]

He he, from being another NY Lindsey fan, of course!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Go right ahead! :)

[wimpycat]

I think she meant that the photo was not a flattering one. It didn't capture his best "side". But that last one looks like a professional photog took it.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Yeah, I got him with his eyes closed in that last one. In the next to last one, I thought for sure that he was heading right toward me -- but he went for one of the security guards, to shake his hand and thank him. He was yapping on that cell phone for most of the time I saw him.

I'm pretty sure he saw me -- and had a puzzled look on his face. I was probably the only person wandering around who knew who he and the others are, and he obviously didn't know that the woman taking his picture was a fan and a supporter who'd recently sent him a campaign contribution. :)

[eeriegeno]

At the 'end of the day', this is good news..............

[jackbill]

Graham joined the U.S. Air Force in 1982 and was assigned as an assistant staff judge advocate at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter. He was selected in 1983 to be the area defense counsel at Shaw, where he served one year.

Damn. I'll bet that I was at Shaw AFB when Lindsey was there. I spent a couple of days there on a "logistics tour" that the Air Force sponsored for various contractors. I wish that I could have met him.

[wimpycat]

ROFL! That's got to be one of the most oft-heard phrases from the impeachment hearings/trial. After "rise to the level" and "raise the bar" and "lying about sex", of course.

[wimpycat]

Well, just think. If any of his staffers lurk here, now he'll know. :-)

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Yes, that is what I meant. I never saw that side(!) of Lindsey before so I did not know he was balding! In 1998, he was "thinning" when I saw him from the side during the clintoon impeachment proceedings, but I never saw a view of him from behind.