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Cub Driver wrote:

There was a waiting list for those slots at that time, and his application
found
its way to the top of the pile in no time flat and clearly out of turn.

You don't know this. It's only an accusation. Believe me, I read
everything that has been published on the subject of Bush's ANG
service, and there is no evidence that he was vaulted ahead of others.

It may well be true, mind you, but that doesn't give you the right to
repeat a baseless assertion as if it were fact.


"The crew members, supervisors, technicians and support staff.
Sgt. Donald Dean Barnhart, who still serves in the Guard, said that he
kept a waiting list of about 150 applicants' names. He said it took up
to a year and a half for one name to move to the top of the
list. "Quite a few gentlemen were wanting to get in," he recalled. For
Bush, there was no wait. He met with commander Staudt in his Houston
office and made his application-- all before his graduation in
Juner. [LAT, 7/4/99]

"Inquiring about Guard admission, Mr. Bush went to an Air Force
recruiting office near Yale, where he took and passed the test
required by the Air Force for pilot trainees. His score on the pilot
aptitude section, one of five on the test, was in the 25th percentile,
the lowest allowed for would-be flierst. [LAT 7/4/99]

"chief of personnel in the Texas Guard from 1972 to 1980,
remembers no pilot shortage. "We had so many people coming in who
were super-qualified," he said. [LAT 7/4/99]

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Al Dykes
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