You are mistaken. I said he attempted to volunteer for rotation to Vietnam. I did not say twice.
FNC: Bush Volunteered for Vietnam, CBS's Mapes Knowingly Omitted from Story
What you've given me as documentation is a "he said, she said".
It's simple enough to solve as it has been from day one. I don't know about now, but back then it was difficult to do much of anything without mountains of paperwork. There was paperwork for everything - and there was always an unbelievable number of copies.
Here's how it
didn't go:
Bush: Sir, Can I go to Vietnam?
Bush's CO: No, you can't.
Bush: Oh, well. Thanks, anyway.
Here's how it
did go, if it happened. There was paperwork. Bush had to sign the request, as did his CO, and God knows who else. It would required signature
s, copies would go to his personnel file whether the request was approved or not.
No one that I have read has ever seen a copy of the request. It doesn't exist.
What he may have done is
inquired. LOL!
Further, about the same time Bush enlisted the last 102 squadron in Vietnam shipped back to the states. He would have had to retrain to another type of aircraft to fly in Vietnam. There's no record of him doing that that I am aware of.
Further, if Bush had wanted to go to Vietnam he could have gone USAF. He didn't do that.
Yes, ANG pilots did TDY tours in Vietnam. Probably there were 102 ANG pilots in Vietnam in early to mid 60's, but there were no 102s in Vietnam in by the end of 1968.