Many Gaps In Bush's Guard Records

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=716&e=16&u=/washpost/20040214/ts_washpost/a40964_2004feb13

<snip>The records show Bush was an eager fighter pilot who said he wanted to spend a lifetime in aviation. But they provide no evidence that he did any military service in Alabama, to which he had requested a transfer in May 1972 to work on a Senate campaign that ended in November 1972.


And the records showed officials from Bush's home base in Texas declining to provide details of his activities between May 1972 to April 1973, even though such documentation was requested by National Guard headquarters. Bush had a $212-a-month stint as a sporting-goods salesman at Sears in 1966, and was a messenger for the white-shoe law firm of Baker Botts. He listed the "Houston Club" as a credit and character reference on one form. The "personal history" he filled out in 1968, when he was 21, listed his only foreign travel as Scotland, in August and September 1959, for "pleasure -- vacation." snip

But the tone of Bush's military file changed abruptly, and with no documented explanation, in May 1972, when Bush sought to transfer to Alabama. That began a period of months in which, the documents suggest, Bush did not actively pursue Guard service and the Guard did not actively pursue him. snip

For Bush's fifth year in the Guard, May 1972 to May 1973, Bush earned a total of 41 "points" for his service and was granted another 15 "gratuitous" points by his superiors, bringing him above the 50-point minimum requirement for the year. There are no records showing he participated in any Guard activities from May 1972 through the end of October 1972.

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[DrBB]

1. And still the big question remains

What about that failure to take his flight physical? And was there any disciplinary response, e.g., the extra 6 months tacked on to his service requirement? Or else, what was that 6 month extension for?

[joeybee12]

2. Too much damn Coke in his system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting article on Salon about how Dumbo disappeared and didn't take his physical at the very same time the Guard began implementing random drug testing!!!!!!

[0007]

3. Gaps the administration won't cover

1. junior arrest record

2. junior's Community Service in Houston Texas with two allegedly non profit foundations

3. junior's girl friend abortion in 1971 of Robin Lowman, which James R. Bath was involved (do a google)

[underpants]

4. Too many "yeah buts" and "whatabouts" here

They had to release them (which was smart of them to do) but simply put these records don't fill up the holes.

I don't think this is going away although the ABC poll out Thursday said that ~61-66% of those polled don't think "AWOL" is an important issue, of course that leaves ~33-39% who do.

[ima_sinnic]

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