I apologize if this has already been discussed but...

[Lindsey]

how is it that * can leave his miliary duty 8 months early to go to college? My ex-husband was in the Navy and this would NEVER have been allowed - and this was AFTER the Vietname war during peace time. I'm confused - IMHO even if * does produce fake documents, pay records, whatever, it's an outrage that he left early. My God....what's happeing?!?!?!?!?

[ComerPerro]

1. My question is

Why is it ok for him to be transferred to Alabama to work on a political campaign during a war?

Imagine some of the poor guradsmen that he has in Iraq right now wanting to be transferred back home to work on a campaign...

Life of Privelage. He has no respect or class.

[guitar man]

2. This might help explain

Vietnam revealed a negative aspect of relying on reservists. For largely domestic political reasons, President Johnson chose not to mobilize most of the nation's reserve forces. The 1968 callups were only token affairs. Johnson's decision to avoid a major reserve mobilization was opposed by the senior leadership of both the active duty military establishment and the reserve forces, but to no avail. The Reserves and the Guard acquired reputations as draft havens for relatively affluent young white men. Military leaders questioned the wisdom of depending on reserve forces that might not be available except in dire emergencies.

The source? some "left wing hippie,feel good plastic bannana" website?


Not hardly. It is from the Air National Guard's very own

website.http://www.ang.af.mil/history/Forging.asp

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