Kevin Brooks wrote:

"Bob McKellar" wrote in message
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Kevin Brooks wrote:

"miso" wrote in message
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Proof? Well, he got some free dental work done if you call that proof.

How would an ANG member get such care without being in a duty status?

However, did he pass his drug screening test so that he could continue
his life long goal of an aviation career? No,

Sorry, but you are a year or two too early--drug screening had not
commenced, and according to the pilots who were flying at the time and
have
weighed in on the subject (including Ed, IIRC) it was done randomly when
it
was initiated a couple of years later. Kind of easy to condemn him when
you
create your own little fantasy world to do so in which things like drug
testing that was not yet underway and NG personnel just dropping by the
base
clinic whenever they felt like it to receive free health care are
included
in the evaluation criteria, huh?

it seems he was
grounded. No use taking a test that will show drug use when you can
use connections to get out of the service.

What kind of "connections" were required that made him pile up those
duty
days during that last few months so he *could* leave, and were they any
different from those used by the other pilots who were also getting out
courtesy of the glut of pilot qualified individuals with heaps more
experience then leaving active duty and looking for a Guard slot?


The problem is Bush* looks like the faux warrior when placed side by
side with Kerry.

Would that be the same Kerry who also left active duty early, and then
went
on to serve as a reserve officer for a few years (while playing that
whole
"Winter Soldier" gig, no less)? With no evidence supporting his
satisfactory
completion of any reserve obligations during that period? How many other
early-release-from-AC officers do you know of who managed *that* little
feat?

Brooks

snip

Me.

No reserve duty obligation whatsoever, even after you were released from
active duty before your initial duty obligation was completed?

Brooks


Bob McKellar


I got out early in 1971, having been commissioned in November 1968, giving me
just over 2 years active commissioned service.

I went to my new home and tried to forget about the Navy. I got one letter from
some Navy somebody or other telling me to go to drills, but I ignored it. The
only other communication I received was my promotion to LT., which gave me quite
a laugh at the time.

Several years later, when my circumstances were very different and I decided to
start drilling, I had been dropped from the reserve rolls, but it only took a
bit of paperwork to get me back in.

BTW, I had no "political pull" whatsoever.

Bob McKellar, reserve slacker, never shot at ( or even aimed at, AFAIK )