[silverleaf]

GOOD GRIEF! THIS is what they are planning to attack? They are fools. Bush spent nearly two continuous years in the active duty USAF - in officer training and then in UPT (pilot training) before returning to his Guard unit. DU= maroons!

[Mo1]

That is what this is about ???

Ummm the Dem REALLY don't want to go down that road .. it's gonna backfire on them

[Savage Rider]

Whoever produced this campaign push card didn't do his homework very well. The writer has Bush serving after Yale AND Harvard. Bush may not have even proofread this piece. For all we know, it may have been a trashed piece.

[El Gato]

Bush spent nearly two continuous years in the active duty USAF - in officer training and then in UPT (pilot training) before returning to his Guard unit.

Actually I don't think he ever went through officer training, at least I don't see in his record any time spent at OCS/OTS or even at basic training. That would make his a direct commision. I would think he'd have needed some kind of training, in military customs and courtesies at least, to avoid having his head taken off by some senior officer while he was at UPT. The two years included both UPT and specialized training in interceptor techniques (T-33 aircraft) and in flying and fighting the F-102. Some of that was back at Ellington, his home base. They were the school house for Guard F-102 and later F-101 transition training, at least starting "by" January 1970, Bush started his F-102 training, officially, on 29 Dec 69. Thus he most likely did his transition training at his home base. The unit had a dual mission for some years, both standing alert (and keeping it's pilots ready to do that mission) and training pilots from ANG units of many state's ANGs.