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Which OER? The one in Alabama? Have you read his entire comments when asked? He says, at best, he just doesn't remember and was too dang busy to bother. He also then commented later that he's not even sure his time as Commander of the Alabama Guard even coincided with Bush's transfer there.

Also, many, many others from back in those days have (links found mostly in blogs since the "mainstream" press isn't about facts) have written about their tours in the Guard and paperwork was a constant problem, especially with transfers.

Also, Bush, during flight training in Texas, front loaded a lot of his commitment that was used to cover his sporadic attendance in Alabama. Also, the "one weekend a month" rule is hardly written in stone and for a variety of simple reasons (family, job, school, etc.) can be skipped for later or waived. Happens all the time.

"Also, many, many others from back in those days have (links found mostly in blogs since the "mainstream" press isn't about facts) have written about their tours in the Guard and paperwork was a constant problem, especially with transfers."

I can attest to this first hand! I just last month recieved my NGB 22 and my Honorable Discharge from the Tx. Army national Guard and I've been discharged from their service for over a YEAR!

Try going from guard to active duty. That's no cakewalk either! I've spent the whole time I've been here when I had a spare minute trying to get them to credit my time in the guard towards active duty time. It's affect my pay to the tune of $150 a month for the last year. It's going to be a nice backpay check next month for sure!