Bush Lied About Serving in the Air Force

[Nambe]

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.. Putting aside the controversy over Bush's Air National Guard service (or dereliction of duty), there was another instance when Bush clearly did not speak truthfully about his military record. In 1978, Bush, while running for Congress in West Texas, produced campaign literature that claimed he had served in the US Air Force. According to a 1999 Associated Press report, Bush's congressional campaign ran a pullout ad in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that declared he had served "in the US Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard where he piloted the F-102 aircraft."

Bush lost that congressional race, but twenty-one years later, the AP questioned him about the ad. The news outlet had a good reason to do so. Bush had never served in the Air Force. He had only been in the Air National Guard. But when AP asked Bush if he had been justified in claiming service in the Air Force, Bush, then the governor of Texas and a presidential candidate, said, "I think so, yes. I was in the Air Force for over 600 days." ..

The Air Force says that Air National Guard members are considered 'guardsmen on active duty' while receiving pilot training. They are not, however, counted as members of the overall active-duty Air Force.

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[Spinzonner]

1. You know, if we're going to get worked up

over every lie and misstatement Shrub makes, we won't have time for anything else.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. No, he was serving in the AF when he was missing from the ANG

YEah, that's where he was.

[Vickers]

3. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!

Or maybe I just need more coffee. They have similar symptoms for me.

[Sinistrous]

4. If our little bastard-in-chief went to Officer Training School

then, technically, he was in the Air Force during that time. Many of my classmates in OTS went to various guard units. We all enlisted in the Air Force prior to attending.

[T Roosevelt]

5. Could Dumbass actually believe he did serve in the AF?

Came across this post regarding his attempted transfer to the Air Force Reserve. Does he think he really transfered?

Bush's Alabama Transfer Shuffle - aWol Update

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On the morning of Saturday, May 20th, 1972, the members of the 147 Fighter Interceptor Group at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, Texas assembled for the first day of one of their mandatory monthly training weekends. George W. Bush didn’t show up. Nor did he show up the next day, May 21st.

Three days later Bush signed a document signaling his intent to completely abandon the Texas Air National Guard, and instead join the Air Force Reserves as a member of the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron in Alabama. But the 9921st was not an ordinary Air Force Reserves unit. It was, in fact, a special kind of "unit" whose members were not required to do any training whatsoever.

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