"Bush fell short of meeting military obligations and was not punished"

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Bush skipped ’70s drills, paper says
Boston Globe: No punishment for missing training

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5943420/

BOSTON - President Bush fell short of meeting his military obligations during the Vietnam War and was not disciplined despite irregular attendance at required training drills, The Boston Globe said Wednesday.

In a re-examination of the president’s service in the Texas Air National Guard, the newspaper said Bush appeared to have broken his contract with the U.S. government by not joining an Air Force Reserve unit when he moved in mid-1973 to Massachusetts from Texas.

The Globe said in July 1973, before Bush moved from Houston to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to attend Harvard Business School, he signed a document saying: “It is my responsibility to locate and be assigned to another Reserve forces unit or mobilization augmentation position. If I fail to do so, I am subject to involuntary order to active duty for up to 24 months... “

White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan, responding to the Globe report Wednesday, said, “The president was honored to serve his country. He met his obligations, and was honorably discharged.”