Reply #13: "the honorable discharge. But that's not the question, is it?" [View All]

[TacticalPeek]

In the way you mean it, no the HD in no way clears him of AWOL.

But it raises an even bigger question, to the contrary: how did he GET the HD with that much AWOL time? In those days, plenty of guys in the NG who blew off even 2 or 3 drills were activated into regular service and found themselves in rice paddies. And if they missed as much time as Shrub, they went to the stockade until they were separated with a Bad Conduct discharge, leaving the question just how did he get the HD and who fixed it for him?

By the way, wonder what a FOIA treatment of his drug buddy and co-groundee James Bath's NG records would show? :evilgrin: