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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (3754)	10/27/2000 10:45:24 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 10042

not five months into his "tour of duty," Gore was given special dispensation and a one-way ticket home, to attend divinity school in Nashville. He dropped out of Vanderbilt shortly thereafter. Kinda odd isn't it? However, I would grant that he did apparently serve 22 months of total service in the military, including the last 5 months in Vietnam. But it is clear that he was never in any "real" danger operating as a REMF journalist in Bien Hoa. Compare this to 6 years for Bush who, although in the Texas Air Guard, had to complete officer's training (OCS or ROTC advance course), and at least 6-12 months of flight training which is quite rigourous and demanding both physically and intellectually. One unknown factor is how long Gore's term of service was actually for. I believe that most tours were 3 years active and then 3 years in the reserves. So that begs the question as to WHY he was not required to fulfill his last year or enter into a national guard unit. Oh well.... It doesn't matter to me either way. I would still put a peacetime jet fighter jockey like Bush up against a wartime journalist like Gore any day... It takes a whole lot more smarts to fly a supersonic aircraft than jockey a typewriter... And that might explain why Bush went on to complete an MBA at Yale, while Gore dropped out of both graduate and divinity school AFTER he served in Vietnam. And the word has it that he developed a major love of heroin laced "ganja" over there.... and carried that nasty habit home with him here in the US..