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I'm still not getting through the key fact yet: this period (when W was working in Alabama) was BEFORE Bush (senior) WAS IN ANY of those positions: Look at your date line:

Bush (senior) WASN'T in the UN (yet), he wasn't CIA director (yet), he wasn't RNC chairman (yet), and he certainly wasn't really anything of a "war hero" at all: just another TX congressman who had flown prop torpedo planes in WWII.

Why the H**L would anybody remember who W was when he showed up for temporary NG duty in AL?

That's IT!!!!!

YOU were in college (for four or more years, continuous interacting on campus with other students (of your age group), and by your own admission, could "only" point out (and not name them individually) some the sons and daughters of "famous people" who were on campus full time.

You were NOT running the college, you were NOT in charge of the student records, and you DIDN'T issue paychecks or ID cards to every student, and you did NOT hire (nor issue fitness reports) for everybody who comes on campus for two weekends during a football game to work a temporay job in the campus police office. Do you honestly think your fictional college president could name every "famous" son or daughter who came through visiting on weekends?

A temporary job in the campus police office for two football weekends by a temp duty police officer from out-of-state working thirty years before.

NOW, could YOU remember that temp duty officer's name if YOU were college president?

That's what you're expecting this base CO to do.

Bush (senior) WASN'T in the UN (yet), he wasn't CIA director (yet), he wasn't RNC chairman (yet), and he certainly wasn't really anything of a "war hero" at all: just another TX congressman who had flown prop torpedo planes in WWII.

The year in question is 1972, so Bush Sr. was the U.N. Ambassador. This doesn't wreck your argument, as many people cannot name the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.. As for Bush Sr. as "war hero" - he was the youngest Navy pilot to receive his wings in WWII, and received the Flying Cross.

YOU were in college (for four or more years, continuous interacting on campus with other students (of your age group), and by your own admission, could "only" point out (and not name them individually) some the sons and daughters of "famous people" who were on campus full time.

Well, I knew their names too, but no matter. The real problem with your argument is that you assume Bush did the time in AL, without the documentation to back your argument up, and rely solely on the statement of Bush's ex-girlfriend, whereas the CO's comments make sense to me:

''Had he reported in, I would have had some recall, and I do not,'' Turnipseed said. ''I had been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we had had a first lieutenant from Texas, I would have remembered.''