Bush doesn't mention military service flap http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/7974466.htm FORT POLK, La. - President Bush, dogged by questions about his Vietnam-era service in the Air National Guard, surrounded himself with a sea of military olive and beige Tuesday, touting his credentials as commander in chief at an Army base that has sent thousands of troops to Afghanistan and Iraq and lunching with a soon-to-be-deployed group of guardsmen.
White House officials said Bush's campaign-style stop at Fort Polk had nothing to do with the controversy over gaps in his service record with the Air National Guard between May 1972 and May 1973. snip
Bush said nothing about the controversy over his Guard service. snip
"Everybody in the Guard does it," said an Army specialist who helps train Guard troops at the fort. "It's common for people" to not come to work or go AWOL.
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