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What a hot, steamy, stinking pile. Some people will do anything for fame/money/notoriety.

I used to work in Officer's Personnel for Dept. of the Army,for an aviation unit, and I used to purge files as needed in accordance with Army Regs. There are sometimes superflous or redundent pages, sometimes some that need to be redone/corrected. I reviewed officers records when they were incoming and outbound.
These records are handled by personnel clerks like I was, and they are not infallible--human mistakes are made.

I DO wish the White House would quit keeping this alive by releasing stuff. It will never be enough. I absolutely despise CNN, and the other alphabet soups.

As for being grounded, if Bush was, this has been asked and answered and easily explained. Lt. Col Centenni gave the best answer--if you missed your physical you were temorarily grounded until you got it. Good grief! If a pilot missed his physical, he didn't even have papers put in his file--it would have something like a flag or be put in a suspense file until the physical was updated. Reasons for missing--the clinic was closed; you were elsewhere (quite legally), even you forgot it. You just cannot fly until you've had your annual physical. And if grounded for this reason or another reasonable one, it would not require disciplinary action, nor would it show on the discharge BECAUSE it was nothing for disciplinary action. Even if an active duty pilot FORGOT HIS PHYSICAL appt. they would simply flag his file and reschedule it.

The sad fact for the President, and the nation is that CNN could not care less--they're in it to help John Kerry and to down Bush. Pray hard for the President to be delivered from this and to have the wisdom to help himself.

By the way, I wonder if CNN could help my daughter find her records of 90 consecutive days of active reserve duty. She served only six years ago, and the records have been lost for four years. She can't get credit for that service. She was paid and they can't find her pay records either--no she didn't keep hers or can't find them.

If you hear a primordial scream in the distance any time soon, it will be me venting.

vaudine