AWOL NEW: Alabama commander: Bush was NEVER AT MY UNIT

[grasswire]

Bush did not receive military pay from May to September of 1972, according to the documents, and the former commander of the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron said Tuesday that Bush didn't show up during those months.

"He never did come to my squad," said retired Lt. Col. Reese Bricken, who lives in Montgomery. "He was never at my unit."

Bricken reviewed documents Tuesday showing Bush's transfer request to his squadron and his response to the request. He said he remembered sending approval back for him to serve in the small unit, made up of reserve members who met weekly.

"He was looking for a place to hang his hat, but he never came by," Bricken said.

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1076497178284961.xml

(This is the postal unit Bush requested transfer to.)

[grasswire]

1. snip

The 9921st squadron met every Tuesday night to review military materials, including things like first aid manuals. Unit members were no longer in the active military and did not earn pay for their work.

The meetings helped the reservists earn points toward their retirement. The unit had no way of helping an active guard member meet his training obligations, Bricken said.

Bush's assignment to the 9921st was withdrawn months later because his superiors pointed out it was not part of a combat-ready Guard unit and did not perform work equivalent to what Bush's training regimen as a pilot required. So in September, Bush applied to the 187th Tactical Recon Group, also in Montgomery, according to a Sept. 5, 1972, letter. The three-month transfer was approved.

[grasswire]

3. note...

....at the bottom of that article is a quote from a local who says he did see Bush in the office one time.

If that is true, we still are left with no one seeing him in the 187th.

[buycitgo]

2. it's UH OH time, you fricking LIAR

how you gonna get to HIM, or the other two guys who were WAITING for you, but never SAW you?

gonna get them all to recant?

[buycitgo]

4. sgt. grasswire

want me to send you some gin?

this DOES call for toast, does it not?

[SpiralHawk]

5. OK, I am so ready to stick a fork in this one

Let it be, let it be, let it be.

Comes on the same day as the Memphis reports about the FedEx pilot who was in that unit, and was waiting for Bush to arrive. He states that he waited and waited, but Bush never came.

See GD threads today.

[grasswire]

6. this is a different unit!

This is the postal unit.

The Memphis pilots were in the 187th -- pilots.

[hedda_foil]

10. That unit didn't see him either.

There's another article about 2 pilots in the very small flying unit who were actually looking for him to pal around with.

[Bozita]

7. The AWOL story keeps growing

Doesn't look like the Bushies can stop it now.

Great find, Grasswire.

[seemslikeadream]

8. There are 5 papers reporting this so far

Times Daily AL
AL.com
Seattle Times WA
Newark Star Ledger NJ
Houston Chronicle TX

[K8-EEE]

9. He'll Be Going Postal NOW...

that all this is coming out, LOL....

Boy you can really understand why GWB is so "proud" of his service that he doesn't want to talk about it. Not exactly a stellar military career!