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MSM to resume pounding on Bush Guard duty.
EFL The Navy launches an investigation into Kerry and we get this:
President Bush ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard flight class and flew 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill in 1972, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act. | So what? He wasn't in Texas in 1972: The records show his last flight came on April 1972, which is consistent with his pay records that show Bush had a large lapse of duty between April and October of that year, a time he says he went to Alabama to work on an unsuccessful Republican Senate campaign. Bush skipped a required medical exam that cost his pilot's status in August 1972. |
The Pentagon and Bush's campaign have claimed for months that all records detailing his fighter pilot career have been made public, but defense officials said they found two dozen new records detailing his training and flight logs after The Associated Press filed a lawsuit and submitted new requests under the public records law. "Previous requests from other requesters for President Bush's Individual Flight Records did not lead to the discovery of these records because at the time President Bush left the service, flight records were subject to retention for only 24 months and we understood that neither the Air Force nor the Texas Air National Guard retained such records thereafter," the Pentagon told the AP. "Out of an abundance of caution," the government "searched a file that had been preserved in spite of this policy" and found the Bush records, the letter said. "The Department of Defense regrets this oversight during the previous search efforts."
| The records only back up what Bush has been saying. He left Texas with permission and did his Guard time in Alabama. So he missed a few drill dates, in the Guard this is no big woop. You make up the time later, that's one of the reasons people stayed in the Guard, flexibility. It's not the active force where you have to be available for duty 24/7. Just go ask a Guard member. |
Begala & Caraville didn't waste anytime did they?
Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-09-08 |
