ping.
From the original Globe story (that started all of this):
"From May to November 1972, Bush was in Alabama working in a US Senate campaign, and was required to attend drills at an Air National Guard unit in Montgomery. But there is no evidence in his record that he did so. And William Turnipseed, the retired general who commanded the Alabama unit back then, said in an interview last week that Bush never appeared for duty there."
http://awol.gq.nu/AWOL_Globe%20series.htm Bush was NOT required to attend those drills according to Turnipseed. And Turnipseed doesn't know whether he attended them or not. Why would he have known? He said he didn't know who Bush was (he wasn't famous or anything at the time). This is all made up by the Boston Globe reporter.