George Bush was trained to bring down Soviet TU-95

www.izvestia.ru ^ | 10/19/2007

[dennisw]

Gore left Vanderbilt law school. He has no law or divinity degree.\\

To be fair to AlGore it seems he left (no flunk out) to run for an open Congressional seat which he won

[BIGLOOK]

Isn’t that why they developed the “over the shoulder” method

Yeah.....but ask an aviator, They'd know more about that than I would. (Air Crew on EC-121s, EP-3s and EA-3s)

The Genie was an unguided missile or rocket so once loosed the aviator was pretty much in as much trouble as his targets.

The lob delivery technique and Immelmann escape was developed for striking ground targets....the lob giving time for the aviator to get distance from the blast. An air intercept would be a straight shot. Don't know if the maneuver would buy the same time in a head to head strike.

[BIGLOOK]

My Dad retired from the Navy in '60. In October '62, we all sat around the kitchen table waiting for the phone to ring again recalling him to active service. His sea bag was packed.

I was in a hot war, a proxy war....but everywhere else the SOS was going on in the Cold War.

[BIGLOOK]

Skinny in country was Westmorland got rid of the Senator’s son after a few months......seems algore needed baby sitters which MACV couldn’t afford.

[magslinger]

Highly believable.

[magslinger]

Important work, especially in ‘62. Like I said, if we weren’t prepared to go to war, we would have. The enemy never asks your permission to attack.

[logomachon]

photographer, while being followed around by someone to protect him and keep him out of harm’s way. Plus he did this for about 2 seconds (slight exaggeration).

I believe Gore eventually got a BA in . . . Journalism (duh!). That's how as a draft volunteer with 2 years on active duty he got to be an Army journalist without having to go to the highly competitive Defense information school in Indianapolis.

As a former OJT Army combat journalist/photographer in Vietnam (1968-69, 5th SFG(A)), I wouldn't knock his Army service. He volunteered for Vietnam, but the brass were terrified of having a serving Senator's son get hurt, so Al wasn't assigned to Vietnam until his father left office. By then he had only 5 mos. left on active duty. It's funny--when I got back after 20 mos. in Vietnam, I had less than 5 mos. left on my 3-year enlistment, so per policy, I got an early out.

True, he went in the Army because he saw that he needed to get his ticket punched for his political future, but unlike Kerry he was pretty much a conventional pro-American conservative Democrat then. When the New Left took over the party, he adopted all the Leftist shibboleths--anti-war, pro-abortion, anti-American, anti-human, etc. He's not stupid. He's just leftist.