Yes, you are right. This is why we need to have this article at hand and to forward it to people having doubts about George Bush's milatary record.
Flying jets, even in the Guard is risky business. I had a close friend die down in Pensicola during his training when his plane went into a stall on landing.
According to this article three or four pilots were killed in Bush's unit.
Some of the talking heads continue to say that Bush was AWOL 1971-72. As the article states, there were more planes than pilots then. The war was winding down. Bush clearly served his time, (six years in fact.)
nikos
Flying in the military is indeed very risky. I am aware of 5% of my Air Force flying class being killed in accidents the first 18 months out of flying school in 1956. I would like to see the percentages of President Bush's flying class fatalities. In fact the F102 that he flew has one of the highest fatality records of Air Force aircraft.
Data like this might convince reasonable people but some of the rats will never be convinced.
I knew people in the Alabama Air National Guard who were killed in training accidents in the early 1960's. I was an Air Traffic Controller in Birmingham at that time.