It might just be this idiocy:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x821450
Good grief don't these idiots realize that the ANG is a part of the USAF?
-Toonces
That is so incredibly funny. I guess those DUmmies really got us now, lol. This is getting to good.
Bush went through pilot training through USAF UPT (Undergraduate pilot training). The Guard didn't replicate training -- too expensive. Bush trained at Moody AFB, in Georgia as part of the USAF.
Of course, W served in USAF, that's how he got his wings.
Now, they're just grasping at straws. Don't these guys over there know anything?
Wow, what a pathetic charge.
Forget it. This is so ridiculous its just going to make the Dims look even more stupid.
Ask any Guardsman the answer to this question.
"Good grief don't these idiots realize that the ANG is a part of the USAF?"
This appears to be what they think is their smoking gun. I don't know if one is considered to have served in the AF if they were in the Guard. At this point my sense is that these pointless nit pick attacks have become both exhausting and annoying and will be an ever greater turnoff to the general public. Have these people not heard the admonition about what to do when you have dug yourself a hole?
They're basing this new attack on a "Corn article". You know who that idiot is don't you?; the guy is on FOX all the time and wrote a book about Bush being a liar.
By the way .. when Bush signed up for the ANG, didn't he have to attend normal training by THE AIR FORCE ..?? I've seen comments about Bush being IN TRAINING FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS (regular training and then flight training). Wouldn't Bush have been assigned to the ANG after training ..??
Pukin Dog - can you shed some light on this issue.
We have been there, done that.
The DUmmies at DUllsville don't have a "Web Exclusive". What saps.
Please note this article (one of many, as you all can imagine) from 1999:
Bush defends 1978 ad citing Air Force service
July 17, 1999
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — In 1978 campaign literature, George W. Bush said he served in the Air Force, a statement his Presidential campaign says is legitimate based on time he spent training and on alert while a member of the Texas Air National Guard.
The Air Force says once a guardsman, always a guardsman, even if called to active duty for training or another temporary assignment.
The Republican Presidential front-runner already had faced questions about whether he received preferential treatment when he joined the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.
A pullout ad from The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on May 4, 1978, shows a huge picture of Bush with a "Bush for Congress" logo on the front. On the back, a synopsis of his career says he served "in the U.S. Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard, where he piloted the F-102 aircraft."
Asked about the statement that the Texas governor served in the Air Force, spokeswoman Karen Hughes said yesterday that it was all accurate. She said that while Bush was attending flight school from November 1968 to November 1969, he was considered to be on active duty for the U.S. Air Force. Also, at several times when he was serving in the Guard, he was placed on alert and considered to be on active duty as well, she said.
The Air Force says that Air National Guard members are considered "guardsmen on active duty" while receiving pilot training. They are not, however, counted as members of the overall active-duty Air Force.
~SNIP~
I'll mail a link to Drudge. My goodness, the minute I read this I distinctly remembered this being hashed over in the 2000 campaign.
Just as the Naval Reserve is part of the Navy, which Kerry claimed to serve in..
So what's their point?
And who cares?
Is this the best Begala and Carville can come up with?
Technically since he was on active duty for a year while training on the F-102, he was Air Force during that time.
Everyone except the hardest core kool-aid drinkers knows that this issue is a non-starter.
Actually it's not, or at least it shouldn't be. But no matter, they have been discredited, just need to advertise that.