The Real Military Record of George W. Bush: Not Heroic, but Not AWOL, Either (link)
"It's time to set the record straight. The following analysis, which relies on National Guard documents, extensive interviews with military officials and previously unpublished evidence of Bush's whereabouts in the summer and fall of 1972, is the first full chronology of Bush's military record. Its basic conclusions: Bush may have received favorable treatment to get into the Guard, served irregularly after the spring of 1972 and got an expedited discharge, but he did accumulate the days of service required of him for his ultimate honorable discharge."
Please read the whole article and pass it on to everyone. This call for the Bush military records is bogus, they have been published ad-nauseum - what we don't have are John Kerry's military records and for good reason...... HOW DID JOHN KERRY MANAGE TO GATHER 3 PURPLE HEARTS FOR MINOR WOUNDS AND A QUESTIONABLE SILVER STAR IN LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS...WHO WROTE UP HIS COMMENDATION PAPERS??????? THAT PERSON HAS YET TO STEP FORWARD IF IT IS SOMEONE OTHER THAN JOHN KERRY HIMSELF - THERE ARE MANY WHO SERVED WITH HIM THAT HAVE PUBLICLY STATED JOHN KERRY IS NOT FIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY. JOHN KERRY REPORTED TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES THAT ATROCITIES WERE COMMITTED THAT HE WAS "WITNESS" TO OR HAD BEEN TOLD ABOUT YET HE DID NOT REPORT THESE MYTHICAL ATROCITIES TO HIS COMMANDING OFFICER (S) AS HE WAS REQUIRED TO DO.
JOHN KERRY HAS A LOT OF ANSWERING TO DO ABOUT HIS VERY OWN VIET NAM AND WHY HE HAD NON-VETS TESTIFY WITH HIM. KERRY AND HANOI ARE STILL COZY AS ARE HIS RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED NATIONS...THIS SENATOR IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE FOR THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA NOR ITS CONSTITUTION – HE IS NOT A REAL AMERICAN AND NEVER HAS BEEN AND THE AL QAEDA TERRORISTS ARE PLANNING ON JOHN KERRY BEING PRESIDENT SO THEY MAY CONTINUE AT THEIR LEISURE TO TERRIFY AMERICA AND THE WORLD – A BETTER RUNNING MATE WOULD HAVE BEEN KOFI ANNON.
Agreed. I have actually tried to figure out the exact number of how many days he would have spent in the field, with pcsing in and out, injuries, trasnfers, paperwork, travel and such. Not 4 months. Supposedly, there is no card for the 1st Purple Heart. How exactly did he receive the Silver Star and who signed off on it? And the Band Aid PH was asked for and refused once, then signed off on in a pile. How did he get the 3rd? How did he KNOW about the 3 wounds and you're out thing? How did he end up working for a New York Admiral 1 month after leaving Nam? Who washed his records? Where are THEY?
An expedited discharge is not hard to get.
You go in...tell the wing, flight, and squad commanders that you have a work or academic schedule coming up...and if you have reached a certain point in duty performed...you show them documents showing that you are accepted for grad school...or hired for an away job....
Then they just put ya on Inactive Ready Reserve and set you up for your honorable discharge.
You don't have to be a Politician's son or from a Rich family to get it either. I know a soldier whose father is a truck driver who got one.
I would not be surprised if John Kerry has an early discharge on his record as well.