[MindBender26]

What's the big deal? This is simply initial ACDUTRA, (Active Duty for Training.) The initial USAF or USAFR Officer Basic course.

[dep]

the big deal is that the dems are accusing w of lying when he says he served in the air force. this document demonstrates that he did serve in the air force.

[xzins]

Active duty is active duty.

There are ZERO active duty NG training units for the most part. They are ALL active duty, organizational units.

The unit to which Pres. Bush was assigned would have been active duty.

There are a few exceptions where a national guard training unit will activate for a summer to conduct enlisted basic training....I think the 100th division from Kentucky area is one of these.

About 99.9% of the time, whether active, reserve, or national guard, you get assigned to an active duty training unit.

You wear THEIR patches/awards/ribbons, etc.

[Bottom_Gun]

I agree with you...this happens in the Navy alot also, a reserve member temporally becomes an active Duty member to attend school. When I was an Instructor, I had several students in my SONAR schools who became active duty to attend them.

[Parthalan]

Also when you take into consideration that it says that he accepts to be active for 120 days of training. He was actually on active duty for training almost 400 or so days.

Almost immediately, he began an extended period of training. Six weeks of basic training. Fifty-three weeks of flight training. Twenty-one weeks of fighter-interceptor training. That was 80 weeks to begin with, and there were other training periods thrown in as well."

That appears to be more than 120 days to me.