Bush's Vietnam-Era Military Records Show Gaps

[papau]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=13&u=/nm/20040211/ts_nm/campaign_bush_dc

Bush's Vietnam-Era Military Records Show Gaps

By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush was absent for long periods of his final two years of National Guard duty but met service requirements, according to new records cited by the White House in an effort to refute accusations he shirked Vietnam <snip>

The documents show long gaps in Bush's Guard service, from May through late October 1972, and mid-January through early April 1973.
Bush spent part of the fall of 1972 working on a political campaign in Alabama, but he performed "equivalent duty" while out of Texas, McClellan said.

The records show Bush earned service points and was paid for duty in late October and November of 1972, but officials could not specify which dates he served in Alabama. They also could not explain the gap in 1973. <snip>

McClellan said the payroll records were proof of Bush's service.But Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, writing of his own Guard service, said: "For two years or so, I played a perfectly legal form of hooky. To show you what a mess the Guard was at the time, I even got paid for all the meetings I missed."

[burrowowl]

1. Gee! Bu$hie

didn't get the gaps filled!?

[LiberalFighter]

2. What about May 73 and July 73

Strange clump of dates

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[blm]

4. No. it doesn't. Where does it verify Alabama service? This is propaganda

meant to persuade STUPID PEOPLE.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Physical?

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First, there is no instance of Lt. Bush disobeying lawful orders in reporting for a physical, as none would be given. Pilots are scheduled for their annual flight physicals in their birth month during that month's weekend drill assembly — the only time the clinic is open. In the Reserves, it is not uncommon to miss this deadline by a month or so for a variety of reasons: The clinic is closed that month for special training; the individual is out of town on civilian business; etc.
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Not uncommon to miss this deadline by a month or so???

bush* wasn't on the base in July 1972 (Month of birth)
bush* was grounded for "failure to accomplish annual medical examination 1 Aug 1972

[grasswire]

6. spreading doo doo on every thread

This Times LTE has been the hot topic among freepers today. They're lapping it up, aren't they?

I hope a freeper will cruise over here and realize that the colonel exposed himself today when he said on FOX news that he had personally seen Bush's Alabama pay stubs.

How and when did he see those pay stubs? Was he part of the scrub team that cleansed the records? He wasn't a friend of Bush, and didn't serve shoulder to shoulder with him.

When and under what circumstances did the Colonel see those stubs?

Or is he lying?

[54anickel]

7. You Again?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=359221#359233

[Chico Man]

8. 1972-1973

Geez on that other thread you seemed to be coming to your senses.