Received this link from a friend, please read this story:
> hillnews.com
>
> I have a high school classmate (Missouri, 1949) who taught Bush how to
fly
> and the following is his e-mail to me last year. He has been ill and
was
> unable to attend the funeral of another classmate this year. My prayers
are
> with him and I am sure he would be sending this and more information if
he
> was able. THUS, YOU HAVE TO SHOW US AND CURRENT PRESS STORIES ARE NOT
> DEALING WITH THE TRUTH!
>
> BUT, THIS IS WHAT MY FELLOW MISSOURIAN TOLD ME LAST YEAR AND GAVE ME
> PERMISSION TO SHARE:
>
>>Subj: Re: ANY ADVICE ON REBUTTAL
> Date: 3/7/2003 9:29:46 PM Pacific Standard Time
> From: mhdell@ev1.net
> To: AnnieCPS@aol.com
> Sent from the Internet (Details)
>
> Hi Ann! Yes, I have some rebuttal to that "detailed crap" on G.W.
Bush!
> First, I was George W.Bush's Fighter Pilot Instructor, and at that time,
> George W.Bush was signed up or assigned or how ever you want to say
it...He
> was a "Part-time" Air Guardsman....which is as many would say.... a
"Week
> End Warrior"!
>
> When he signed up in the Texas ANG, he was required to go to
Undergraduate
> Pilot Training.....Which he did! Then he was required , after
graduation, to
> return to Ellington to go through Air Combat Training, which was
Training in
> the F-102A Interceptor,
> and graduate from this training course....as a school , which took about
8
> months.
>
> After that time, if the Air Force needed or wanted him to go on active
duty
> and fly the F-102A, they could have requested that to happen. That
didn't
> happen because I came back from Vietnam in 1969 and I was flying the
F-102
> Interceptor in Combat at that time. After '69, the Air Force did not
want
> F-102's in SEA combat and replaced the F-102 with the F-4C. Lt G.W.
Bush
> was not an F-4 Pilot, and he was a "part-time"Air Guardsman in the Texas
> 111 FIS , F-102 Squadron!
>
> His only "requirement" after graduating from Air Combat Training, which
he
> did, and I Instructed him the whole time was to be a "Part Time" Pilot
in
> the F-102 Squadron. We were a training Unit and the Air Force was not
> taking anymore F-102 Pilots. George W. was a rated pilot and a graduate
of
> the Interceptor School, but he was only required to attend the Unit
Training
> Assemblies and get the Additional Flying Training Periods. At that
> time....the 111th had all Instructor Pilots with high flying time as
> Instructors and we did not need Lt G.W. Bush to fly in the Training
School.
>
> Being a part timer....he could stay in the Texas Unit, or he could, if
he
> chose to do so move any place in the Country as a Civilian. He was not
> required to be at the Unit as a full time Air Force Pilot. He was
signed up
> for 6 years, and....if the Air Force wanted him they could have
activated
> him. They did not want another F-102 Pilot!!! He still had the 6 years
to
> be on call, but he was not an active Air Force pilot, and he had to
perform
> the Drills I mentioned....or do what was asked by the Commander! He
could
> separate from the Unit should he move to a place that he could not
attend
> UTA drills. He was still under the 6 year umbrella of the USAF
"if"????
> they wanted to bring him on active duty.
>
> So.....who ever wrote all that crap did not understand the Air National
> Guard Personnel and Pilot Training Program for a "Part Time"
Guardsman!!!!
> G.W. Bush did not do anything wrong.....and he asked and received
permission
> to go to Alabama.....(the Birmingham Unit). I had been in the
Birmingham
> Unit and I was flying F-84F airplanes. The Montgomery Unit had RF4
Phantom
> airplanes , but they were another separate unit. That Unit was
Commanded by
> a very staunch Democrat, and he did not like Republicans, nor did he
have
> any military reason to make comments about Bush.... G.W.Bush had
permission
> from Colonel "Buck Staudt" to go to Alabama.....and that was the proper
> thing.
>
> Again, Lt Bush was not a "Full Time" Air Force, or Full Time Air Guard
> Pilot......The Full Time Air Guard Pilots were either on Air Defense
Detail,
> as designated by the Squadron Commander , or they were Full Time Civil
> Service Employees.
>
> Again, Lt G.W. Bush was a Part Timer, and he did not do anything wrong!
> Those saying he did are simply uninformed on Pilots, or they simply want
to
> say George W. did something wrong, because "they" weren't selected for
> something!!! And that is really the truth!!!! I was a Major and I was
a
> Civil Service Employee, and I was G. W. Bush's Instructor and I was in
the
> 111 th when G.W. came into the unit, and I was in the 111th when G.W.
moved
> to West Texas. So......Please tell the ones who are putting out all that
> B.S. that it is not true....and they are simply trying to make George
look
> bad!
>
> Maurice Udell, Colonel (Ret) and GM 14M Retired . <
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