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To: longnshort who wrote (311599)	11/21/2006 7:30:11 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578531

"My brother was suppose to show up for boot camp, one call and he was in the naval reserve." Yet Gore did show up to boot camp. Here is something to consider, just because something could happen, doesn't mean it did. You are claiming stuff that was totally unnecessary. Yeah, he could have made a phone call. And the staff sergeant at the induction center could be lying. And a 10 ton solid diamond meteorite could slam down in my backyard. [T]here is no hard evidence that Gore's father, other government officials, or top commanders intervened on his behalf. Dess Stokes, staff sergeant at the Newark Armed Forces Entrance and Examination Station on the day [Gore] walked in, doesn't remember any communication from superiors about Gore. A kid with Gore's background (a 134 IQ and a Harvard degree), he said, didn't need to be a senator's son with high-level contacts to get the military job he wanted: "You pretty much got your choice of assignments." So there is no reason to suspect that Gore was treated differently, other than some fantasy about what could have happened. Unlike Smirk who glided past, hopped over and in general was a truly unusual case in how he got into the TANG.