McGentrix wrote:But, what if the average is 30%? Does that make a difference?
I would say so, yes.
But do you really believe it was?
You know how minimum scores work-they are set so that in a time when the service might be begging for qualified pilots, they set the sights low enough so they can get someone to actually train as a pilot who you feel has a decent chance of not being so incompetent they crash the plane.
More on the average score being 30%. Well, the average score on the leadership section was 88%. While I'm sure the average varies section to section, it does indicate that a low score like 25% on
any section is likely to be very far below average.
And if you have one score very, very far below average, then it beocmes almost impossible to get a high combined score for several sections averaged together.
Then you have the small fact that he was jumped over 500 people who were waiting for a year and a half to get into the Guard, even though he first applied just 12 days before. And that he was
appointed an officer without going through rigorous Officers Training, or ROTC, or the usual degrees.
Face it, McGentirx, Bush Jr had the whole path from student whose deferment was running out to pilot school for a plane that was
not going to be used in VietNam all set up. All that was left was for various people along the way to take care of the paperwork-it was a preordained process orchestrated by his Congressman daddy.