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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (55857)	11/1/2000 12:51:02 PM
From: lawdog	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 769670

Where was Bush in the Summer of 1972? He was AWOL: His transfer was not approved, yet he moved to Alabama (suppesedly) anyway. George: Around that time, Bush decided to go to work for Winton "Red" Blount, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate, in Alabama. Documents from Ellington Air Force Base in Houston state that Bush "cleared this base on 15 May." Shortly afterward, he applied for assignment to the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron in Montgomery, Ala., a unit that required minimal duty and offered no pay. Although that unit's commander was willing to welcome him, on May 31 higher-ups at the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver rejected Bush's request to serve at the 9921st, because it did not offer duty equivalent to his service in Texas. "[A]n obligated Reservist [in this case, Bush] can be assigned to a specific Ready Reserve position only," noted the disapproval memo, a copy of which was sent to Bush. "Therefore, he is ineligible for assignment to an Air Reserve Squadron." Despite the military's decision, Bush moved to Alabama. Records obtained by Georegemag.com show that the Blount Senate campaign paid Bush about $900 a month from mid-May through mid-November to do advance work and organize events. Neither Bush's annual evaluation nor the Air National Guard's overall chronological listing of his service contain any evidence that he performed Guard duties during that summer. Where was Bush in the fall of 1972-1973. From the Globe article: In September 1972, Bush won approval to do temporary ''alternative'' training at the 187th Squadron in Montgomery. He was cleared to attend weekend drills in October and November. But two of the 187th's officers said Bush never appeared. ''I'm dead-certain he didn't show up,'' said the unit's commander, retired Brigadeer General William Turnipseed. On May 2, 1972, Bush's two immediate superiors at the 111th, one of them a friend, signed a document stating that they could not perform his annual officer efficiency report for the period of May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973, because Bush ''has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report'' and ''has been performing equivalent training'' at the Montgomery unit. The document is dated a day after Bush was supposed to have done duty in the unit. Both men have since died. In Alabama, a group of Vietnam veterans recently offered a $1,000 reward for anyone who can verify Bush's claim that he performed service at a Montgomery air guard unit in 1972, when Bush was temporarily in Alabama working on a political campaign. So far, no one has come forward. The reward is now $3,500. So where was Bush? Nobody knows. In the military that means you are AWOL.