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Sat 11 Sep, 2004 07:52 pm
How can we find out what what happened to the guy who Bush bumped to get his slot? There had to be others waiting for the slot. Who were the guys who didn't get the Guard slots, who had to join the regular Air Force instead?
Who was the man on the bubble? W's bubbleboy.
The one who would have gotten a slot but didn't because George W. Bush's daddy knew the governor. What happened to him? Did he have an uneventful tour of jet schools and european bases? Was he assigned to some mid-Atlantic coast base, flying radar units up and down the seaboard or did he pull fighter duty with the EWS boys out of Homestead or Omaha then go home and become an insurance agent?
Or did he get picked for Da Nang and get his ass shot off on some mission while George was sitting in some Alabama bar nursing a cold one and dreaming about going to Harvard?
Was W's bubbleboy married? Were there kids who wondered how it was that their dad ended up dead and in a framed picture on their TV and other kids got to wrestle with their dad on the cool grass in the park?
Did W's bubbleboy's honey-sweet-thing cry herself to sleep for eleven years till they finally found some wreckage and told her for sure that he was gone?
Has George ever taken a really good look in the mirror and wondered what kind of a crappolla maxima he really is?
Would you look at that guy?
Doesn't that smirk tell you anything at all about his lack of comprehension of the rest of this stinking world and you and I and the boy on the bubble?
Joe
What a very, very, very good question.
I too would love to know who went instead.
bush obviously just doesn't get it!
Maybe the bush family think they have priority over all others.
It must be the Unknown Soldier.
It could explain all the fuss they keep making over him (or her).
Bush squandered money the US spent on his pilot training
One facet of Bush's shameful national guard sham service was that the US spent nearly one million (in 2004 dollars) to train him as a jet pilot. Bush made a mockery of the taxpayers money when he abandoned his military obligation. All that money went down the rat hole. But Bush didn't care. This pattern of using taxpayer money to entrich himself would be evident in his serial business failures, illegal insider stock trading, and public financing of his sports arena. ---BBB
An excerpt from a review of Bush's so-call national guard service:
Was a Flight Inquiry Board of senior Air Force officers convened to determine the appropriate punishment for Bush's misconduct?
Regardless of the explanation for Bush's suspension, there is another crucial question: Was this suspension sufficient disciplinary action for such a flagrant dereliction of duty at a time when the Air Force was reeling from a serious pilot shortage at the peak of the Vietnam War?
In the Air National Guard, expensively trained pilots are not casually suspended. There is normally a Flight Inquiry Board, which exercises the military chain of command's obligation to insure due process. If one had been convened, its three senior officer members would have documented why such a severe action was justified in relation to the country's military objectives at the time, as opposed to the simple desire of a trained pilot to just "give up flying".
In the event of serious misconduct, such as substance abuse, a Flight Inquiry Board would have determined the appropriate punishment. The punishments could have included temporary or permanent 'grounding,' a career-damaging letter of reprimand, forced reenlistment in the US Army with active duty in Vietnam, or a less-than honorable discharge.
In fact, there is no evidence now in the public domain that a Flight Inquiry Board was convened to deal with Bush's official reclassification to a non-flying, grounded status. However, the records of such a Board would not be subject to an ordinary FOIA request because of privacy protections under FOIA.
This absence of a Flight Inquiry Board is of particular interest to veteran pilots who are intimately familiar with normal disciplinary procedures. In the absence of Bush's releasing his complete service record, the implication is that Bush's misconduct in regards to "his failure to accomplish annual medical examination" was handled like everything else in his military service: aided and abetted by powerful family connections with total disregard for the needs of the military as well as Bush's solemn oath.
Once again, the only way to get to the truth would be for George W. Bush to personally request the release of his full military records.
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