Papers: Bush Piloted Guard Training Jets

[TacticalPeek]

Papers: Bush Piloted Guard Training Jets


Friday September 10, 2004 6:46 PM

By MATT KELLEY

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -

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The logs indicate Bush did half of his final 21 flights in a training jet or simulator, and on four occasions he sat in the co-pilot's position after more than a year of commanding a single-seat F-102A fighter by himself.

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The logs also show that Bush, who throughout his career usually landed his jet with a single pass, required two passes to land the F-102A fighter simulator March 12 and a regular fighter jet April 10, 1972. His last flight as an Air National Guard pilot came six days later.

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White House officials also could not explain the final two entries of Bush's official flight logs that refer to him being assigned to work as an instructional pilot in late May 1972 at a Texas Air National Guard base. Bush left the base for Alabama before the two dates listed on the flight logs and his records show he wasn't paid for work on those dates.

The logs have a code indicating the assignments were eventually deleted from his official records. White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said the entries could have been a paperwork error.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4486896,00.html

[aquart]

1. Or the real forgeries could be turning up. Who knows?

[punpirate]

2. Well, once again, the press...

... misses the point. He couldn't have flown as an instructional pilot at the time since he'd not taken his annual flight physical and had already been grounded provisionally.

Ah, well. Maybe the object of all this is to so obfuscate the issue as to make it impossible to find the truth in it.

[LynnTheDem]

3. He did half his flights

IN A SIM????????

And NO, CAN'T be a PAPERWORK ERROR...after all, that V on Kerry's Silver Star that the US Navy said was just a PAPERWORK ERROR is not accepted by the rightwingnuts and US State media!

[aquart]

4. What does this mean?

Non-military and clueless here.

[LynnTheDem]

6. A sim

Is a very $$$ 'toy' used for training. A flight sim is a pretend plane, like a 3-D video game. Looks like a big box on the outside; step inside & it's like you're in a cockpit of a plane.

bush sure has been telling a LOT of total porkies about his being a 'flight instructor', rotfl!!!

[aquart]

7. Sim, I get.

I didn't know George had claimed to be a flight instructor. You can't instruct in a simulator?

My question is why so many sims when he'd already been trained, already done flights. His flying suddenly deteriorated?

Any relation to the rumor he cracked up a plane? Or did some big nono?

Most people are worried about consequences. George doesn't even know what they are.

[TahitiNut]

5. I wonder how many sets of training wheels he went through.

:eyes:
Shit, he can't even pilot a Segway or bicycle without falling on his ass (the one at the end of his neck).

[Moderator]

8. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=815701

[truthisfreedom]

9. the point about this loser is:he could snap and leave the country in peril

at any moment. he's weak and unpredictable. he loses his ability to keep up the pretense at random unpredictable moments. he's a faltering, unpredictable leader who needs to go on vacation and is drugged regularly to keep him appearing stable on television.