[Khan Noonian Singh]

Here's an earlier one. From 30 December 2003, http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=lEmIb.189045%24PD3.5896144%40nnrp1.uunet.ca:

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In the fall of 1973, as an automatic disciplinary action, Bush was
reassigned to the Obligated Reserve Section in Denver, because he disobeyed
orders to show up for a mandatory flight physical and therefore was unable
to fulfill the last two years of his six-year obligation as an Air National
Guard jet fighter pilot.

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[Cboldt]

That is also a conclusory statement, very similar to statements made by various accusers over the past years. Again, no reference to having the oorder in hand, just that he "disobeyed orders to show up for a mandatory flight physical." As others have pointed out, annual physicals were mandatory. Were written orders prepared for mandatory actions? Do service people get written orders to get a haircut?

Anyway, the statement "he disobeyed orders to show up for a mandatory flight physical" is most likely, in this case, sloppy expression. If there was a writen dated order (e.g., the 4 May 1973 letter), the discussion would have referred to the memo, at least generall. "He disobeyed a written order to show up ... "

[PhiKapMom]

That is weird -- Bush wasn't transferred to Denver -- his pay records were in Denver and my guess is that they went from the section that did the flight pay to the section that had the pilots on desk duty. Whoever is doing this knows little about the military. In that time period, all AF military pay records were in Denver.

He did not have to fly to fulfill his obligation. The Dems/CBS forget that he was on active duty for two full years and if you had all the points he received, he would have had 15 or 16 years. That seems conveniently lost in all of this. Pilot training and all that goes with it to fly fighters is not a piece of cake.