Viacom lie debunked here on Snopes.com
Posted on 09/22/2004 12:04:54 AM PDT by kcvl
BYRON YORK, "NATIONAL REVIEW" WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, in May 1968, he signed up for six years in the Guard. And I think there is a kind of popular impression that his father got him in, he didn't show up and then he got out early. But that really kind of ignores what happened during his term in the Guard.
HUME: Byron, one quick question.
YORK: Sure.
HUME: Could his unit have been called up and could he have ended up in Vietnam?
YORK: Yes. It could indeed have happened.
HUME: But it didn't. It just didn't happen.
YORK: It did not happen.
HUME: Right.
YORK: But the first thing Bush did is that he underwent 53 weeks of flight training.
HUME: Is he full time in the Guard now?
YORK: This is not 53 weekends. This is 53 weeks of full-time flight training. You don't learn how to fly a fighter plane in a couple of weeks. Then he went to 21 additional weeks, full-time, of flight interceptor training because the F-102 plane he flew was an interceptor fighter. And then he went to additional training. And when you add it all together, to begin with, he went to about two years of full-time active duty training. After that, he did settle into the flying several times a month routine that Air National Guard officers were doing at the time. And he racked up hundreds and hundreds of hours doing it. So really in his first four years, he was actually quite active in the Guard.
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so the stuff about "helping others" get in the guard was bogus too then? who said that again?
I hope you are kidding because that was Fox News title. DUH!
Viacom lie debunked here on Snopes.com
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