White House: Guard Never Disciplined Bush (questions submitted by The Associated Press)

AP ^ | Sep 29, 5:39 PM (ET) | PETE YOST

[Former Military Chick]

Are we done yet?

[mmyers]

No we are not done. Kerry sign the Damn 180 you FRAUD>

[1066AD]

Will AP pursue Kerry's papers as aggressively ? Some hope.

[DTogo]

Why even offer a response? My reply to such crap questions would simply be, "Next..."

[Former Military Chick]

So we have done an exhaustive search on Bush, well AP when are you going to the same with Kerry?

tick tock tick tock tick tock

[Tom Bombadil]

The Texas Air National Guard stripped Bush of his pilot status in August 1972

The picture is one of stripes being pulled from a seargent's sleeve.

What absolute stupidity.

There weren't any airplanes for Bush to fly and the guard had too many pilots....I agree, are we do yet?

[rocksblues]

Bush's official flight logs as a fighter pilot, showing he logged more than 300 hours in military jets but had reverted to a two-seat training jet several times in his final weeks as a pilot in 1972.

My distant recollection is that if a pilot has over 300 hours flying and then fly's in a trainer would be that he was training to be or was an flight instructor!

[Robert A Cook PE]

"Air Force regulations in 1972 required Bush's Texas commanders to "direct an investigation as to why the individual failed to accomplish the medical examination." An investigative report was supposed to be forwarded "with the command recommendation" to Air Force officials "for final determination." The regulations also said a board of inquiry could be appointed to investigate why a pilot did not take an annual flight physical. There is no record of a report or a board of inquiry in Bush's case." ..."

These are direct quotes from the dnc-Kerry-Edwards web site, April 27 press release archives, asking these exact same questions: The dnc is quoting some regulation nobody else can find (AFM 35-13 (mistyped as AFM 35-12 in the dnc press release) by paragraph and line number.

But nobody else can produce that regulation. Nobody, anywhere can show this "flight review" is required.

[Robert A Cook PE]

There's a legit letter stating this in Bush's records.

The democ's are making the rest up.

[MEG33]

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040210-082910-8424r.htm

The winding down of the Vietnam War in 1971 provided a flood of exiting active-duty pilots for these instructor jobs, making part-timers like Lt. Bush and me somewhat superfluous. There was a huge glut of pilots in the Air Force in 1972, and with no cockpits available to put them in, many were shoved into nonflying desk jobs. Any pilot could have left the Air Force or the Air Guard with ease after 1972 before his commitment was up because there just wasn't room for all of them anymore.

[Mike Darancette]

Has the AP ever asked Kerry where he was on 12/24/1968?

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[Two Dawgs]

What does it take to put pressure on AP to look into Kerry's records?

[rocksblues]

This I guess is something that the AP didn't use because it didn't fit their into their agenda!

The MSM just doesn't get it. Nobody watches the big 3 or believes what the wire services spew out anymore.

[rocksblues]

Nothing because they won't!

[mammer]

COMPLAIN TO AP AT

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[daviscupper]

Are you serious! ;-) AP, the Anti-President news service, is only interested in smearing our Commander in Chief. Why, they only feel good when they are condemning the United States and its Military. Find something bad about America and AP is all over it. They are just part of the old "Blame America First" gang. No surprises here.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Not to mention the fact that Bush's training was in F-102s. To move to another airplane would've required another 6 months to a year of training and that would have produced a qualified pilot just at the time he was leaving the TANG.

[MEG33]

http://www.hillnews.com/york/090904.aspx


Bush’s National Guard years
Before you fall for Dems’ spin, here are the facts

They have beating this dead horse since the governor's race in Texas in 1994