[2banana]

Well, he could have always took other routes and said he had a bad back (but not quite so bad as to keep off the ski slopes) or used his political connections to get out of the draft (ie - have someone else serve in his place) and go lead anti-American demonstrations in England and Moscow...

And BTW, I know more than a few pilots who have died just in training accidents. It is a dangerous business even in peacetime. That is the thing about being in the reserves, you still can be called up at any time or die in a training accident just like the active duty...

[DMZFrank]

GWB was flying a very tempremental hi performance fighter aircraft, the F-102 interceptor. It had a disturbingly high accident rate. The odds of W being injured or killed in a training accident were probably higher than REMF Al Gore's of being hurt or killed in combat.