Bullshit. Don't try that weak **** tactic of straw manning my position to include "all the airmen who did maintain...yayayyaya."
Oh get off your high horse. The complaint about Bush is that he served in the TANG instead of volunteering for Viet Nam, if you are going to critisize him then you critisize everyone who volunteer for NG.
Deal with it.
My comments are specifically about Bush and you ****ing know it.
And you don't know jack about.
Let's be grown up about this okay?
Kiss off.
He may have been a technically good pilot,
Yes he was.
but Bush was a shitty airman
Bull
, his own commanders complained about his service record.
Bull
His flight aptitude test score was in the 25th percentile
Going in, and only the best of the best got in. Straw man.
He had five unexcused training absences for two of his years of service with the TXANG,
His record was within the requirements of his service.
he requested a transfer to the Alabama ANG where nobody can corroborate that he attended any training dates and he didn't log a single hour of flight time for well over a year
And no one proved otherwise and he fulfilled his duty.
You are just a whiner.
, then he left Alabama and returned to Texas where he failed to notify his unit and report for training for a few months
He fulfilled his duty as required.
, but claimed he put in time to make up his missed drills, although nobody could ever confirm this.
If you can't prove otherwise, you don't have a leg to stand on. But the fact is his record shows he had all the points he needed.
Funny how that Bush's records are so mysteriously screwed up and incomplete while there is no history of other pilots records being so circumspect.
What's funny is how the Bush haters had to resort to phony memo's to try and prove anything.
Everybody knows he was working on Winton Blount's campaign while he was in Alabama.
SO WHAT!!!!!!!!
He was not full time active duty get your facts straight.
Bottom line, he was a shitty airman.
Bottom line he was not.
As a former service member I know damn good and well what makes a good service member..
Your service has nothing to do with what you know about Bush.
Tell me again what a badass Bush is for flying a Delta Wing jet fighter...you know the guy who didn't log a single hour of flight time during at least 18 of 36 mandatory training dates.
They weren't flying his plane any more, they were rotating it out as active duty pilots were being transfered to reserve along with thier F4's, it made no sense to but a reserve pilot back through trained when they had an over abundance of pilots.
You didn't know that did you.
What? Are you ****ing serious? Good lord you are out of touch. Okay...how about this....
The Odds of Dying.
You don't volunteer for heart disease, you don't volunteer for cancer.
I have provide an authoritative source for exactly how dangerous the Delta Dagger was YOU are not an authority in the matter YOUR opinion means ZIP.
What are you talking about? Towards the end of his enlistment Bush wasn't doing jack **** for service.
They didn't need him and didn't have a plane for him to fly.
He was in Alabama working on a political campaign for a family friend and then went back to Texas and requested an early discharge to attend business school.
We all know that, there is no need for you to keep repeating it, and it is a moot point. HE WAS NOT A FULL TIME MILITARY. And it you knew anything about the military at the time you would know that there was an abundance of Viet Nam active duty pilots being rotated to reserve status to end our their military duty and the reserve pilots were not need nor were they going to be trained to fly F4's it made no sense to do so.
Why do you keep straw manning me on insulting all national guard troops
Because you keep denigrating their service, Bush was no different from any of them, when you insult him you insult them.
Do you know what the definition of absurd is?
Your post.
Political appointment? Whatever.
Yes.
And what does it matter if he got is degree at Oxford?
He didn't succeed did he.
He didn't flunk out, he voluntarily drooped so he could return to the states.
Why? And provide a cite.
He got a juris doctorate at Yale. He still qualified for a Rhoades scholarship bottom line.
He qualified through his political connections and then couldn't finish.
Comparatively speaking Bush is an intellectual midget.
Since Kerry and Gore did worse what do you call them? Do you have an MBA from Yale?
Barely, and what happened to Bush's academic aptitude? Did he just lose it? Kerry handed Bush his *** in the debates. Bush doesn't even have a decent command of the English language.
Kerry lost every debate just as Gore did.
Lol...what do "most in the oil business" have to do with Bush's failures.
The whole industry in TX and LA collapse during that period, I was there.
Good lord this is subjective at best. I have seen a slew of criticisms of Bush tenure as Governor of Texas.
It's not subjective at all, he was a highly respected govenor on both sides of the isle.
Why can't you argue this intelligently?
OH kiss off, just because you arguments are without merit don't stoop to the invective.
Less bullshit, more substance please.
In all our discussions I am the only one who provides evidence and cites to back up what I say, so speak for yourself.
Here go educate yourself and try chilling out a little before you respond.
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