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To: dennisw
"Jano" Cabrera

Nice to see who would be part of a Skerry Admin.

Do the Democrats have anybody working for them that aren't thieves, sex perverts, communists, or imbeciles?

282 posted on 09/12/2004 4:50:23 PM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
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To: Rome2000

"Jano" Cabrera.....

Yep that fruity looking DNC goof is the one slamming George Bush's military record. What a charade.


285 posted on 09/12/2004 4:53:33 PM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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To: Rome2000

This is where they are putting all their marbles:


Bush lost that congressional race, but twenty-one years later, the AP questioned him about the ad. The news outlet had a good reason to do so. Bush had never served in the Air Force. He had only been in the Air National Guard. But when AP asked Bush if he had been justified in claiming service in the Air Force, Bush, then the governor of Texas and a presidential candidate, said, "I think so, yes. I was in the Air Force for over 600 days." Karen Hughes, his spokeswoman, maintained that when Bush attended flight school for the Air National Guard from 1968 to 1969 he was considered to be on active duty for the Air Force and that several times afterward he had been placed on alert, which also qualified as active duty for the Air Force. All told, she said, Bush had logged 607 days of training and alerts. "As an officer [in the Air National Guard]," she told the AP, "he was serving on active duty in the Air Force."

But this explanation was wrong. Says who? The Air Force. As the Associated Press reported,

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.

Anyone in the Air National Guard is always considered a guardsmen and not a member of the active-duty Air Force, according to an Air Force spokeswoman in the Pentagon. A National Guard member may be called to active duty for pilot training or another temporary assignment and receive active-duty pay at the time, but they remain Guard members.

The AP report said, "It may be a question of semantics." But today I checked with two spokespersons for the US Air Force, and each confirmed that an active-duty member of the Air National Guard is not considered a member of the US Air Force. "If a member of the Air National Guard is in pilot training," says Captain Cristin Lesperance of the US Air Force media relations office, "they would remain on the Guard books. They would be counted as Guard, not as an active-duty Air Force member."



http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?pid=1704


287 posted on 09/12/2004 4:53:41 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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